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TIL there’s a whale that has been swimming alone since 1992 because its song doesn’t get any response from other whales

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MeEjK TIL Tupac Shakur made his movie debut in 1991’s “Nothing But Trouble” with Digital Underground, singing his original tune, “Same Song.”
BgRmL TIL studies suggest that from 1970 to 1976, the IHS (Indian Health Service) sterilized between 25-50% of Native American women of child-bearing age.
VP1Q TIL a person from Niger is called a Nigerien, but a person from Nigeria is called a Nigerian.
lo4Gr TIL that France has inheritance laws that automatically give a significant portion of inheritance to each child and children cannot be disowned in the will
v1E4K TIL: Scientists used Sunflowers near Chernobyl after the 1986 nuclear accident, to extract radioactive cesium from contaminated ponds nearby. Then again in 2011 at Fukushima to extract radiation from the nearby communities.