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TIL: A Single Watermelon Once Sold For $6100

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QN9mE TIL Axolotls are able to regrow their limbs, tail, gills, brain and heart in just a few weeks
mxm6p TIL that a group of orcas (aka killer whales) will attack an adult blue whale, simply for their own entertainment. They have virtually no chance of killing it, nor do they really try.
XE6ME TIL steel doesn't need to melt to lose it's strength. At 50% of the melting temperature it already loses 90% structural integrity.
Z8Jl4 TIL John. F. Kennedy's brain was stored at the National Archive after his autopsy. The brain was lost in 1966 and has been missing since.
gM4A9 TIL in 1956, a fighter plane shot itself down because it was faster than the bullet it shot