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TIL hammerhead sharks have never killed a human. there have only been 17 unprovoked shark attacks by hammerheads since records begin in 1580, all non-fatal!

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wrwM TIL that David Spade did not attend his close friend Chris Farley’s funeral because he “could not be in a room where Chris was in a box.”
oRmJR TIL Elephant Seals can dive nearly 2200 metres, almost as deep as a Sperm Whale.
v1mO8 TIL that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from the historical Israelites of antiquity, but from Khazars, a Turkic people. Completely delegitimizing any ancestral claim to Palestine.
76OZ TIL that Steven Bradbury, an Australian short track speed skater, won an Olympic gold medal in the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics by cruising behind his opponents and waiting until they crashed during both the semifinal and the final.
9w4W6 TIL that according to Hinduism, the Hindi words for "venus" and "semen" are the same because Shiva vored Shukra(the God of Venus) and he came out as semen.