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TIL that Caribbean sperm whales have a different “speaking” accent than whales in other oceans.

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wolX7 TIL the Apollo 8 Mission returned from Lunar orbit on Christmas Day and landed safely in the ocean, between Christmas Island and Hawaii, at night
Jxak TIL that an English inventor named Maurice Ward (1933-2011) invented a thermal shielding material called Starlite which was able to withstand extreme heat (10000 degrees C), but never revealed its composition in fear of reverse engineering and losing control of rights to the material.
0dWQM TIL Old typewriters have no exclamation point! They typed an apostrophe ' over a period .
GA5pQ TIL What “would” means.
9Y9pr TIL the black soldier fly larva turns most organic substances into nutrient-rich protein and frass, a valuable organic fertilizer. Significant reductions in E. coli and Salmonella were measured in manure after larvae were introduced in it. They can also purify biomass contaminated with heavy metals.