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TIL Killer whales in the wild have not been responsible for a single human casualty.

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R5nk1 TIL that South Africa is the only country in the world to have both polygamy and same sex marriage legally recognised
AAng TIL that there exist a tree with multi-hued bark, that gives it “rainbow colors”.
j6jYj TIL A brown dwarf star is 13 to 80 times the size of Jupiter but doesn't have enough mass to fuse hydrogen (they can fuse deuterium and massive ones can fuse lithium). Because of the lack of energy some brown dwarfs put out little to no light and can have a surface temperature as low as -23C (-10F).
pY4dQ TIL: In 2008, Doritos held a competition to create a commercial to send to space. They sent "tribe" - where escaped Doritos worship a salsa jar (possible chip sacrifice involved) to Ursa Major for 6 hours using a space station in the Arctic Circle. 61% of those surveyed thought "its a start"
grnXA TIL that Brooklyn New York has a bigger Jewish population than Jerusalem. 1 out of every 4 people in Brooklyn is Jewish and it has been called "the most Jewish spot on Earth".