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TIL you could crawl through the arteries in a blue whales heart

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kJPkB TIL The state of Singapore was expelled from the Malaysian federation due to a heated ideological conflict between their respective ruling parties.
0wGw5 TIL to deflect flight noises from the Amsterdam Airport, an 80-acre park in the shape of perfectly aligned furrows with high ridges in between (inspired by old farming techniques and Chladni patterns), was built. Finished in October 2013, the park cut the noise level in half almost immediately.
mxAaP TIL that the SR-71 Blackbird was so fast that, if a missile was fired at it, the pilot would simply accelerate and outrun the missile.
LQE8v TIL the average elephant poops 220 pounds (100 kg) a day.
E1m5d TIL in 2010 a Black man named Kalief Browder spent 2 years in solidarity confinement over an alleged theft of a backpack.