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TIL narwhals and beluga whales can mate to produce a hybrid called the Narluga

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4koBb TIL that in 12th grade Steve Wozniak made a fake bomb, laughed at the principal that disarmed it then electrocuted the guards at juvenile detention with 120v electricity.
4kgVJ TIL that the largest cavalry charge of all time took place during the 1683 battle of Vienna. 18,000 Polish and German cavalry men led by the Polish king and his Hussars charged down into the vast Turkish lines and crushed the invading Ottoman army, ending the Islamic invasion of Europe.
WkaaY TIL: In Vietnam, a bridge over 1,800 feet long has along its length a sculpted yellow metal dragon lit for night display and able to spray water from its mouth --but, most impressively, it can exhale giant fireballs. (It's meant to be a visual tribute to North Vietnam's conquest of Da Nang city.)
780PM TIL that, from 1935, the SS-managed Lebensborn foundation managed a network of maternity homes for unmarried mothers and orphanages for kidnapped children in order to further the Aryan race
PmLJ TIL there’s a hotline filmmakers can call for science advice with the goal of helping filmmakers incorporate accurate science into their films