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

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85rL TIL that the photographer who took the famous ‘The vulture and the girl’ photograph in 1993 later on committed suicide in 1994, the same year he received a Pulitzer prize for the disturbing image.
699oZ TIL that Duke Nukem Forever holds the Guinness World record for "Longest development period for a videogame"
v1gpr TIL that "Ukraine" roughly means "Borderlands", and was referred to as "the Ukraine" during Soviet times, but no longer.
16588 TIL that in 1995 BMW released 120 limited edition M3's called the "Lightweight". (Of which Paul Walker owned 5) These cars shipped with extra performance parts strictly for "competition use only" with a letter stating that installing the provided parts would void your whole warranty on the car.
OG0D4 Today I learned that a man made hole is deeper than the mariana trench.