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TIL as well as being the largest mammals, blue whales are also the loudest, producing low-frequency "pulses" that can be heard from more than 500 miles away.

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DQKkp TIL Benazir Bhutto (11th, 13th PM of Pakistan) and Liaquat Ali Khan (1st PM of Pakistan) were both assassinated in the same park and rushed to the same hospital. The doctor who attempted to revive Bhutto in 2007 was the son of the same doctor who tried to revive Khan in 1951.
7rydx TIL about men's sheds. Rather than working alone in the garden shed, these are specific places where men (and also women) can go and work on general craft projects like woodwork, electronics, etc in a social setting.
xVKVg TIL The theme song called “Believe In Yourself” from the kids’ show “Arthur” is recorded by Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers which is a group entirely composed of the children of Bob Marley
a86eN TIL there is an artificial island in Maldives called Thilafushi, which was created as a landfill to help with the waste from the capital city Malé. This dumpsite has been neglected and abandoned for the last three decades and it is now just starting to see positive changes.
4XlBR TIL most of the Federalist Papers (51 out of 85) that defended the the United States Constitution and lead to its ratification were written by Alexander Hamilton when he was 30 year old. He was also one of the five members of the committee that made the final draft of the original constitution.