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TIL killer whales are the second most widely-distributed mammal on Earth (after humans)

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KYbaQ TIL about Manhattan’s Book Row, where until the 60s, over 36 bookstores existed across just a few blocks
yQPrv TIL of Saturn, an American Alligator born in 1936, who is rumoured to have met Hitler and survived the Battle of Berlin as one of only 96 out of 16000 animals from the Berlin Zoo to survive WW2. He was moved to Moscow Zoo after the war where he still lives today.
OGjla TIL that the highest grossing animated movie of all time is Ne Zha 2, a Chinese film which was just released in January 2025 and is still currently in theaters
yEM8 TIL that the Robert Frost poem “The Road Not Taken” AKA erroneously as “The Road Less Traveled” isn’t a salute to can-do individualism but rather a commentary on the self-deception we practice when constructing the story of our own lives - in other words, the two roads are interchangeable.
kyxd TIL that in development, the original Crash Bandicoot was codenamed ‘The Sonic’s Ass Game’ in reference to the fact the game was like a 2D platformer in 3D, thus requiring the player to look at the character’s rear the whole time.