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TIL the closest living relatives to bears are seals and walruses

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x67x0 TIL Italy has a dozen or so spoken languages, not dialects, although Italians often refer to them as such. Many predate the Italian language, and some are of Germanic and Slavonic origin. While Italian is Italy's national language and spoken by most, many speak their "dialect" in their region.
jNpOM TIL A North Korean submarine got stuck in a fishing net
pYA8Z TIL that in Sydney, Australia, wealthy and poor suburbs are separated by a line of chicken restaurants called the "Red Rooster Line"
oRNWY TIL Maitotoxin-1 is an extremely powerful and potent biotoxin produced by the dinoflagellate species Gambierdiscus toxicus. It has a LD50 of 130ng/kg in mice and it produces one of the most complex and largest non-protein and non-polysaccharide molecules by organisms.
mxg9Y TIL People Used the Postal Service to Mail Their Children