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TIL Forrest Gump’s investment in Apple stock would be worth nearly $7billion today.

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W9y4 TIL In 1966 a Beluga whale swam up the Rhine river (Germany) as far as Bonn. The skippers who first saw the whale had to take blood alcohol tests after reporting it.
b9mOp TIL that the first recorded use of Forensic Entomology was by Chinese detective in 1200s AD. In a murder investigation in a village, detective Song Ci put every scythe in the village for inspection and found the culprit when flies- attracted to trace amounts of blood- kept landing on his scythe.
x6Beo TIL that humans can learn to use echolocation to perceive detailed information about the location, density, and dimension of the objects in their surroundings (as bats do).
0dMnM TIL: Sanji was originally Naruto (and Naruto was originally a chef)
R5P11 TIL about Qanats, which is a water supply system that was developed in ancient Iran for the purpose of transporting usable water to the surface from an aquifer or a well through an underground aqueduct. Proving crucial to water supply in areas with hot and dry climates.