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TIL Alaskan Killer Whales sometimes eat deer and moose swimming between islands on the northwest coast of Alaska

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9wpDm TIL that our eyes twist when we tilt our heads
ADk8d TIL Issei Sagawa, a Japanese man who murdered and cannibalized a Dutch woman in 1981, has been a free man since 1986 due to loopholes involving insanity. Sagawa walks the streets and plans to eat again.
VMBaD TIL The code to inform US troops that South Vietnam was lost and should be evacuated instantly, was a weather report followed by the song "White Christmas"... in April.
KYVDJ TIL - the pH scale used in chemistry and medicine was developed at the Carlsberg R&D lab in their effort to provide a more consistent product to their customers
D10pY TIL there wasn't a single credible report of American soldiers being spat on upon returning from Vietnam - Nixon administration made it up to deflect the narrative of the war