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TIL Killer Whales are actually dolphins. They were called Whale Killers by Spanish fishermen but were mistranslated as Killer Whales in English

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Z8gov TIL that Disney traded ABC sportscaster Al Michaels from ESPN to NBC in exchange for the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, so the latter could appear in the game Epic Mickey. In an interview, Michaels commented "I'm going to be a trivia answer someday."
9YndX TIL that all the golf holes in Wii sports are 3D versions of NES golf
LkQeZ TIL there’s a museum in Amsterdam that houses deformed human embryos and other such abnormalities
awgg0 TIL of John Wojtowicz, who robbed a bank to fund his partner’s gender reassignment surgery. In prison, they made a movie about the crime and he used the money he earned from selling the rights to finally pay for her surgery.
pgM4 TIL In 2012, the world’s first lab grown burger cost $325,000. By 2015, a lab grown burger only cost $11.36.