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TIL that Orcas chase and kill Blue Whales using pack tactics, distractions, and persistence hunting techniques.

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ANxO4 TIL about Bernt Balchen, a Norwegian-American aviation pioneer, Arctic explorer, and decorated war hero. He was the first person to pilot an airplane over the South Pole in 1929 and played a crucial role in advancing polar aviation. During WWII, Balchen led covert missions for the Allies.
ZpXYG TIL modern Africa is associated with large mammals like elephants, lions, and rhinos, but large mammals had a global distribution until a mass extinction roughly 11,700 years ago and Africa is simply the only continent that retained a large amount of them
wLaZ6 TIL The board game Candy Land was made to entertain hospital-bound children during the Polio Pandemic
Zp9pY TIL Humans used to eat Giant Sloths
e0gjE TIL Michael J. Fox’s actual middle name is Andrew