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TIL that not only is the blue whale the largest animal on Earth, it is the largest animal to have ever existed on Earth, growing up to 100ft long and weighing up to 200 tons.

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0nKL TIL if a professional wrestler really gets injured during a match the referee will raise his arms over his head into an “X” shape to signal to backstage officials and paramedics that something is legitimately wrong.
69doZ TIL that it was calculated that it would have taken the concrete for the Hoover Dam 125 years to cool if it was poured as one continuous pour. Instead giant concrete blocks in columns were poured and then cooled by a series of internally contained pipes of cold water, greatly reducing cooling time.
ADJR4 TIL Before the British partitioned India, the spoken language of Urdu and Hindi was referred to collectively as “Hindustani”. When India became independent, Gandhi wanted to keep this Hindustani language. But later Urdu became official language of Pakistan, and Hindi, official language of India
VMwN0 TIL aerospace engineer and author Judith Love Cohen (worked on the Hubble Space Telescope) had two well known sons. The first son, Neil Siegel, developed GPS receivers in mobile devices and the US Army's first unmanned air vehicle system. The second son is a rather famous actor... named Jack Black.
wALY TIL a man planted a 1,360 Acre forest all single-handedly. Enough trees to create an outdoor habitat for five endangered tigers (among other endangered species)