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TIL that all sperm whales in the world descended from just one female who lived tens of thousands of years ago

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KyZG TIL Bicycles have no speed limits in the UK, but you can get charged with ‘cycling furiously’.
d8JGd TIL that Buick is the oldest surviving American car brand, founded in 1899.
PYAvw TIL that Neopets was run by the Church of Scientology.
v587 TIL that in 1971 A 17 year old Girl Juliane Koepcke was the only survivor of a plane crash in the jungle of Peru. she wandered ten days through the jungle with an injured knee, a broken collarbone and only some sweets as food until she found a group of lumbermen who brought her into a town.
GAk41 TIL. The marathon distance of 26.2 miles is not the distance between Marathon and Athens, but was established by the Queen of England for the 1908 Olympics.