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TIL nursing blue whale calves gain weight at about 10 lbs. per hour, or about 250 lbs. per day.

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OoBP4 TIL about Dana Lewis, who has diabetes built her own artificial pancreas, she used social media, computer skills and mail-ordered parts to invent an artificial pancreas for people with diabetes and she is giving away the plans for free
j6eDM TIL about cross sea waves - square waves, also known as square seas. They are formed when the winds of two weather systems - one old and one new - meet. The result looks like a quilt-like pattern of squares on the surface of the sea. Cross seas usually occur along coastal areas and are rare.
QJZL6 TIL Jonathan Nolan's Chicago-area American accent is completely fake. After he moved to Chicago from England, people didn't like the way he talked, so he changed his accent.
4XjVX TIL of the $23 million dollar toilets designed by NASA for deep space missions. With odor control being a serious issue, NASA pays certified sniffers to smell the toilets after they've been used to evaluate odor-control measures. The lead engineer calls them the "unsung heroes of the space program".
d7pK TIL Ubisoft fixed their game by using a cracked executable made by the warez group Reloaded to pirate their game. The signature of the Reloaded group was still in the patch when it was cracked open.