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TIL it is essentially impossible to keep great white sharks in captivity due to their dietary needs and tendency to travel extremely long distances. The longest record is 198 days for a juvenile great white.

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X0gkX TIL that To reduce eye strain, you should look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds every 20 minutes.
70dx TIL the song “Ol’ Man River” changed a lyric from “Niggers” to “Darkies” to “Colored Folk” to “We all” over the course of 20 years starting in 1927.
aNDo TIL Newton’s flaming laser sword is a philosophical razor that states anything that cannot be settled by experiment is not worthy of debating.
xyPD TIL the average bust size among North American women has increased from 34B in 1983 to a 34DD in 2013.
ADyLn TIL about Carl Tanzler, a radiology technologist at the Marine-Hospital Service in Key West, Florida. He developed an obsession for a young Cuban-American tuberculosis patient. In 1933, almost 2 yrs after her death, Tanzler removed her body from its tomb, & lived w the corpse for 7 yrs.