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TIL that Sperm Whale vomit, or "Ambergris", is very valuable and is used to make perfumes, due to its pleasant smell.

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X01lX TIL Harrods, the famous English department store, is owned by the country of Qatar through their sovereign wealth fund.
7QRb TIL that Wyoming issues Jackalope hunting licenses for it’s official hunting season. It is on June 31st from midnight to 2 AM, and only for hunters with an IQ no greater than 72.
7JDZ TIL The “rib” in the biblical story of Adam and Eve may actually be a mistranslation of a euphemism for the baculum, a bone found in most mammals penises, to explain it’s absence in humans.
YpwWP TIL that the oldest known graffiti in Pompeii says; ‘Gaius Pumidius Diphilus was here’, along with the date October 3, 78 BC.
0B0y TIL In 2013, a woman got furious at Target for naming the color of her plus-size dress “Manatee gray” while the regular-size dress was called “dark heather gray”. Target changed the color name and issued an apology.