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TIL that the closest living relative of bears are seals

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LQr1p TIL "once in a blue moon" is around every 2.7172 years and is coincidentally close to the number e.
1j54 TIL that smartphones are capable of receiving FM radio signals, but phone/wireless companies deny that consumer demand is strong enough to justify activating it
x61ZD TIL that Rainbow Trout and Ocean Trout are the same species but just caught/raised in freshwater and saltwater respectively.
Lk050 TIL of co-emperors Caracalla & Geta,who hated each other.At a meeting set by their mother, Caracalla had Geta killed.Caracalla then killed any who knew Greta.Over 20,000 were killed.It became a capital crime to even say "Greta".Years later he sacked a city because they held a satire of the murder.
yVQM8 TIL in 2021 classified details of the British Army’s Challenger 2 tank were leaked online. A War Thunder player leaked details after a disagreement over the tank's in-game design. However the classified documents weren't considered "valid source material" & no changes were made to the in-game design