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TIL Alfa Romeo's logo contains a snake eating a human

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5VAYk TIL in a 2021 study, orcas seemed to avoid pilot whales in the majority of the interactions documented around Iceland. "Occasionally things will get heated and the pilot whales will chase the killer whales at high speeds, with both species porpoising out of the water."
OglX TIL To “spruce it up” originally meant “to make it out of a material from Prussia”.
nRQY TIL Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s grandfather was one of the directors blacklisted as a Communist in the McCarthy Era
9Rr TIL There is a village in Greece whose residents use a language made up entirely of whistling.
Zpx44 TIL the Imperial Library of Constantinople held thousands of ancient Roman and Greek texts for ~1000 years. Most of the library was lost over time due to war and fires, with the Archimedes Palimpsest a notable survivor