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TIL that Finns weren’t originally considered “white” in the United States, they were linked to Mongols and called “China Swedes” due to not speaking an Indo-European Language

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pAp8 TIL A researcher once played a recording of an elephant who had died. The sound was coming from a speaker hidden in a thicket. The family went wild calling, looking all around. The dead elephant’s daughter called for four days afterward.
ZpVBG TIL that in the movie Animal Kingdom Baz isn’t one of the brothers of the Cody family, only a close friend and PIC of Pope
5lD9 TIL the collective name for ladybirds is a loveliness of ladybirds
DQA6Y TIL, during World War II, Americans accepted rationing as a requirement due to the war cause scaricty. However when Sliced Bread was made illegal, Americans were not going to accept it.
Gx7g TIL on the real whaleship Essex (which was destroyed by a white sperm whale, inspiring Moby Dick) the crew resupplied at Galápagos by collecting 300 Galápagos giant tortoises which they let roam the ship at will, butchering them at sea as needed.