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TIL a blue whale’s age is determined by its ear wax

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4k8aJ TIL that titular typing tutor of 80s PC program "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" was the creation of one of the software developers, who sought to present a "friendly face" for a generation of very new and very wary computer users. Mavis was inspired by a Haitian-born woman named Renee L’Esperance.
KrYE TIL that pornhub offered a “save the boobs!” Campaign where they offered to donate a penny to the Susan B Komen Foundation for evry 30 views in the “big tit” or “small tit” category, but the foundation refused their money so pornhub tripled it and gave it to other organizations
Bg4ar TIL the soft foundation soil that gives the Leaning Tower of Pisa its tilt is also the reason why it was able to survive four major earthquakes
jNj5R TIL That more than 165 journalists were murdered in Russia since 1993, with 20 deaths alone in 2002.
KYbBG TIL Mark Hamill followed up Star Wars with the 1978 comedy Corvette Summer. He plays a high school student who befriends a sex worker and joins a crime ring while hitchhiking to Las Vegas to recover a stolen corvette. It's essentially the Dude, Where's My Car of the 1970s.