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eJj5 TIL that a whale’s skull is so thick that it requires a world war 2 anti-tank rifle to euthanize one that has beached itself.
e0QA6 TIL that Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Jack Anderson was targeted by the Nixon administration for assassination in 1972. The plot was foiled when the assassination plotters, G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, were arrested for the Watergate break-in.
1aQV TIL the world’s oldest functioning light bulb was built in 1900 and is still burning.
m7gR TIL Trey Parker (Co-creator of South Park) has an autographed picture of Saddam Hussein in his office.
E1avw TIL European bison herds move by majority rule: each bison “votes” by facing the direction it wants to go, and the herd goes in the direction chosen by the largest number.