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TIL a blue whale’s mouth cavity is so vast it can engulf a volume of water equivalent to its own body mass.

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b9Db4 TIL while native citizens of the small European principality of Monaco cannot gamble in their own physical casinos, they can legally gamble on online ones
xVdoD TIL of Theodore Hall, among the youngest Manhattan Project scientists. Finished high school at 14, graduated from Harvard at 18, and recruited for the nuclear program at 19. Fifty years later, near death, he admitted to having been a Soviet informant the entire time.
Bm6L TIL there are more iphones sold globally then children born. At a rate of 4.6 per second
Yp79W TIL the oldest known individual tree in the world is 5,067 years old, yet there are no photos of the tree online, and its location is kept secret to protect it
6WYZ TIL reindeer eyes switch from gold in summer to deep blue in winter