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TIL that male adult whalefish can never open their mouths

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4QLg TIL that in WW2 during calls to see if a safe house was convenient to visit the person answering would reply “no, I’m too busy.” If the safe house had been captured and taken over they would reply “yes, come on over.”
gMREL TIL the largest unclaimed lottery prize was £63,837,543.60 ($83,163,402.36), won in the UK.
GA1Jg TIL that from 1930-1950, Sam Barry coached basketball, football, and baseball at the University of Southern California. In that time, the school won national championships in all 3 sports.
nepwd TIL of the Diomede Islands, despite being separated by less than 4 Km, the time difference between them is of 21 hours. In winter the sea between them freezes and one can walk from "yesterday to tomorrow" or from "tomorrow to yesterday".
woNAE TIL: US President Eisenhower warned of an “out of hand” military industrial complex in his farewell speech