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TIL at Vancouver Island a male orca and its mother ambushed another mother orca and her calf, for the purpose of infanticide and to mate with it's mother once nursing was no longer needed. The male got ahold of the calf and drowned it, while his mother blocked the calfs mother from rescuing the calf

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6vKw TIL there was a cancelled animated show called “Clone High” that was about a government ran high school. The students were clones of famous people, such as Abraham Lincoln, Joan of Arc, Mahatma Gandhi, Cleopatra, and John F. Kennedy.
wo5OY TIL a Polish farmer named Franciszek Honiok is considered the first victim of World War II after being murdered on the evening of 31 August 1939 as part of a Nazi plot to provide a justification for the invasion of Poland.
b66v4 TIL The Venus de Milo, as a Greek sculpture, would more accurately be called Aphrodite de Milos (Milos is the Greek island where it was discovered). Although it may also be a depiction of the sea goddess, Amphitrite.
0dJlR TIL Bin Laden wrote his last and final will shortly after 9/11 and in it he urged his children to not join al-Qaeda and to not continue Jihad.
yVlk8 TIL John Morales, the actor who played the crime-fighting cartoon character McGruff the Crime Dog, was sentenced to 16 years in prison stemming from a 2011 arrest in which police seized 1,000 marijuana plants, 27 weapons – including a grenade launcher – and 9,000 rounds of ammunition from his home