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TIL a man once tried to preach Christianity to a group of lions

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yXyv TIL that during the cold war, when navy divers repairing a whale enclosure heard a human-like voice saying “out, out, out,” and got out of the water to see nobody, they found out that a beluga whale named “Noc” had learned to mimic human speech and was trying to communicate with them.
OGQB7 TIL 70% of Saudi Arabias electrical consumption is used exclusively for air conditioning
rRdNw TIL it takes the Sun 226 million years to completely orbit around the center of the Milky Way.
m1YBO TIL 57.5% of College Graduates Don't Work in Their Field of Study
PYBNG TIL During the filming of the 1953 film Beat the Devil, Humphrey Bogart lost several of his teeth in a car accident. Comedy actor Peter Sellers, then not known internationally, but with a talent for imitating voices, was hired to dub some of Bogart's lines while Bogart was unable to speak.