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TIL orcas are a part of the dolphin family

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XEdm6 TIL that in Japan people don't sign documents but have personal stamps for documents
QM19 TIL that beluga whales that suffer the loss of a child will sometimes “adopt” inanimate objects such as plants, rocks, and, in one case, a caribou carcass.
BrpnK TIL the worlds most littered product is the cigarette butt, with approximately 4.5 Trillion being tossed each year.
kJrvm TIL a United States government contract to create synthetic rubber gave birth to Silly Putty.
oBmBR TIL that the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan in 2011 was so powerful, it shifted the earth's mass, shortening our days by 1.8 microseconds.