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TIL that a sperm whale’s clicks are powerful enough to easily blow out a divers eardrums or vibrate a diver to death.

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X01pX TIL that the word ‘sandwich’ came from a lazy dude (the earl of sandwich) who didn’t want to leave the gaming table so just ate sandwiches- cold meat between 2 bits of bread
jvxQ TIL that Weird Al wanted to write a parody called “Chicken Pot Pie” parodying “Live and Let Die,” but Paul McCartney refused, as it went against his vegetarian beliefs.
KY8NR TIL The earliest defibrillation was done on a chicken in 1775
OolyY TIL that while interbreeding occurred between neanderthals and early modern humans, the only genetic evidence of these events conserved within the human genome comes from Y chromosomal DNA meaning that all neanderthal DNA within modern humans comes from male neanderthal and female human pairings.
9YWNM TIL that Backgammon has been around for over Five Thousand years, and only one other board game is older but the rules for it have been forgotten.