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TIL: Olivia Newton-John and Ben Elton are third cousins

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BnQx TIL that HSBC was caught laundering money again, again, and again, of the collusion of the biggest banks that caused Trillions of dollars of damages (the LIBOR scandal) as well as that they are unanimously deemed as “too big to jail”.
4XjjR TIL Blue Whales cannot swallow large prey because their throat is tiny – only 4 to 8 inches in diameter! They primarily eat one of the smallest animals in the ocean – shrimp-like creatures called krill.
DQoMe TIL that breakdancing is a new medal event to be introduced in Paris 2024
WkvnA TIL that the Great Falls of the Potomac northwest of Washington, DC is the steepest falls in the eastern US and are along the Atlantic Fall Line of the Appalachian Mountains, dropping 76 feet in under 1 mile.
wo8Q1 TIL a study by researchers at Connecticut College in 2013 discovered that Oreos activate the same “pleasure center” in the brains of lab rats that were activated by cocaine and morphine. The researchers also found that the rats liked to eat the crème filling first