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TIL that Blue whales are among the loudest animals on the planet, and might hear each other up to 1,000 miles away.

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WPgA TIL to keep the plot twist in ‘Empire Strikes Back’ a secret George Lucas filmed Darth Vader delivering the line , “No, Obi-Wan killed your father!”. Mark Hamill was only told the truth moments before filming, and only he, Lucas, and the director knew about the twist until it was revealed in cinemas
e0VDk TIL In 1986 a trained analytic philosopher penned an essay on Bullshit. Bullshit attempts to manipulate listener and is indifferent to lies or facts. Bullshit is vague whereas lies are specific and uncoverable.
oBk1r TIL train robber Elmer McCurdy's mummified corpse was used as decoration in carnivals during the 1920's and wasn't properly identified as real until 1976. It scared a young boy named Mark Taylor so greatly it stuck with him into adulthood, and inspired him to create He-Man's nemesis: Skeletor.
4kvrJ TIL Jeopardy! contestant James Holzhauer is the 3rd highest-earning American game show contestant ever at $3.52 million & also holds the single-game winnings record at $131,127. He's the first & only player to win $100,000+ in a single episode and he accomplished this feat six times.
4X07o TIL That the last legal heir to the Ottoman Empire- Ertuğrul Osman- died in 2009, 85 years after its destruction. He was known in Turkey as "the last Ottoman Emperor."