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TIL Kazakhstan has the highest amount of deaths from leukaemia in the world per capita

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vZ68 TIL Sperm whales hunt upside down toward the bottom of the ocean. They look back up and locate squid by their silhouettes against the light from the surface.
VMkZp TIL in 2009 a Japanese whaling fleet used a sonic weapon against a helicopter caring a camera crew of conservation activists. The conservationists noted that their helicopter was also equipped with a similar sonic weapon, but had only used it thus far to play a recording of "Ride of the Valkyries".
jNGVa TIL that Thomas Jefferson actually helped suppress efforts to abolish slavery as president of the United States
bLm7 TIL that women apologize more often than men, though men and women are equally as likely to apologize for a given offense; men just have a higher threshold for what is considered offensive
ADNjo TIL The book 'A Clockwork Orange' Had Two Different Versions, an American one and a European one, because the US publisher thought Americans would find the the idea of a criminal being redeemed unrealistic