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TIL Orcas, or "killer whales," are actually dolphins.
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TIL of Barnes Wallis, who in WWII not only invented the “bouncing bomb” which bounces on water to a target, but also the earthquake bomb which creates a 3.6 mag earthquake and was the largest non-nuclear bomb in the war.
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TIL that a 3 mile journey on a steam train, which would have taken 1,000 gallons of water and a tonne of coal, can be replaced by a diesel engine burning 18 gallons of fuel; that's a 98% fall in energy use between the two technologies.
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TIL Saudia Arabia accidentally printed thousands of textbooks containing an image of Yoda sitting next to King Faisal while he signed the 1945 UN charter
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TIL Stanford University’s Band has been banned from several campuses and even Disneyland. Some of their offenses include mocking a case of a missing girl at Southern Cal during halftime, and playing outside OJ Simpson’s trial.
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TIL a TV station in Atlanta, Georgia once broadcast a story on a new kind of Krispy Kreme donut. The caption in the image behind the on-air reporter read, "So good you'll suck dick."