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TIL Blue whales can eat half a million calories in a single mouthful

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74Nx TIL that California burglars found child pornography among the tapes they stole. They then proceeded to report it to the police, leading to the pedophile’s arrest.
KYAO4 TIL that Victorians use to take family photos with their recently dead loves ones.
4XyGw TIL: A Giant Tortoise, the last confirmed sighting of which, was in 1906, was discovered in 2019. The female Tortoise was discovered on Fernandia, an active shield volcano on the Galapagos Islands.
a4kM TIL that during his execution by firing squad, Marshal Ney of France was permitted to give the order to fire himself.
woDEY TIL about Black Monday during the Hundred Years' War, in which a sudden hailstorm killed around 1000 English soldiers and up to 6,000 horses in only half an hour. The carnage convinced the English king that the storm was God's wrath, and he sued for peace with the French the next day.