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TIL that a whale’s skull is so thick that it requires a world war 2 anti-tank rifle to euthanize one that has beached itself.

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j6Kna TIL that The first animals to orbit the moon were two Russian tortoises inside Zond 5 spacecraft, The tortoises not only survived the journey, but returned to the Earth alive . On 21 September 1968, six days after the launch, Zond 5 was retrieved from the Indian Ocean.
X05BQ TIL that 80 French parliamentarians voted against the Constitutional Law of 1940, which established the authoritarian rule of Philippe Pétain. They are known today as Les Quatre-Vingts (the Eighty or Vichy 80).
MeOZV TIL that the secret police in Communist Romania subjected the leaders of a 1977 coal miners’ strike to 5-minute chest X-rays to ensure that they developed cancer
7yZ7 TIL there is a Christian cult in China that tortures former members for leaving and killed a woman for refusing to join
YpZNZ TIL Francesca Marie Smith, the voice of Helga from Hey Arnold, actually started writing episodes of Hey Arnold when she was only 11 years old. She wrote a total of 10 episodes.