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TIL the Nile crocodile has the strongest bite of all animals.
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TIL: Concerned about the censorship of human genitalia on extraterrestrial messages, one MIT researcher recorded & transmitted the sound of a ballerina’s vagina contracting. The transmission was intercepted & cut off by the US Air Force but parts of it managed to reach two stars in 1996 & 1998.
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TIL Led Zeppelin knowingly copied the song "You Need Love" in "Whole Lotta Love", but the band considered it "so far away in time and influence" that they decided they could just get away with plagiarism.
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TIL The White House was officially named such by Theodore Roosevelt in 1901. Before then, it was called "the Executive Mansion."
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You can see the coronavirus from space, well kind of.
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TIL in 2011, when Donovan McNabb signed with the Minnesota Vikings, Chris Kluwe agreed to change his jersey number on the condition that McNabb make a $5,000 donation to charity, to mention Kluwe’s band a total of 5 times during McNabb’s press conferences, and to buy him an ice cream.