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TIL that the word homosexual was not in the Bible until 1946 and the word it replaced translated to pedophile

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6EaKX TIL Sperm Whales are capable of making clicking noises that are so loud they are deadly. Really deadly
PYeog TIL if you get a zebrafish drunk, it convinces the other sober fish to follow it around.
o6M8 TIL that the shortest scientific paper ever published had zero words. A clinical psychologist Dennis Upper attempted an experiment: to combat writer’s block by writing about it. His experiment failed, but no results are results all the same, and the paper was published.
l1DV TIL there is a 15 million year gap in the fossil record called “Romer’s Gap”
GYXRJ TIL a villager in China unknowingly used a hand grenade to crack walnuts for a quarter century, until he saw the grenade in a government flyer