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TIL Vladimir Lenin spoke English with an Irish accent

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bwna TIL that in Japanese, the Milky Way is called 天の川 which means The River of Heaven.
5YJPP TIL Orcas exploit a 'security bug' in great white sharks to immobilize and kill them. When a shark is held upside down this induces tonic immobility (TI), a sort of temporary paralysis; the orca are known to attack them in a way that induces TI and will keep them there till they suffocate.
Eg8j0 TIL in subtropical climates, such as in East Africa, India, and the Philippines, wine is made from bananas.
Rxk9 TIL there is the machine which consists of twelve pairs of worms and gears. The input gear makes 4 revolutions in a minute and the output gear thus makes 1 revolution in 2.3 trillion years and is embedded in a block of solid concrete. This machine represents time frames astrophysicist deal with.