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TIL that "sardine" isn't actually species of fish but rather a generic name given to to various small, oily fish within the herring family of Clupeidae.

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nWv4r TIL In 1967, Paul McCartney forgot his passport when travelling to France to shoot a music video. He told the agents, ‘You know who I am so why do you need to see a photograph of me in a passport?’ And was let through.
44BX TIL in Norse mythology, the dwarves created a magical chain to shackle the wolf Fenrir. It was made of: the sound of a cat’s footfall, the beard of a woman, the roots of a mountain, bear’s sinews, fish’s breath and bird’s spittle. It is said that this creation is the reason why none of these exist.
6EyvW TIL that rainfalls of diamonds have been suggested to occur within Saturn, as well as in Jupiter
R7nr6 TIL Ivan is just the Slavic variant of the name “John”
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.