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TIL “The Powerpuff Girls” were originaly called “The Whoopass Girls”

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4aQR TIL The Great White Shark is food for Killer Whales, and that the smell of one of their own, dead in the water, will rapidly drive all of the GW Sharks in the area deep into the ocean and far away from land for the rest of the year.
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