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yQd9v TIL in 1982 the British navy mistook three whales for enemy submarines in the Falkland War and killed them with torpedos and an attack helicopter
YpoVW TIL Egyptians' sun god Khepri was scarab-faced because they believed that in the same way as the beetle pushes large balls of dung along the ground, Khepri moved the newly-born sun across the sky
YpoXr TIL Futurama creators came up with two alien languages placed throughout the entire show for fans to decipher, some fans believe there is a third language that has not been officially confirmed
oBLor TIL that there's a term for an altitude where there pressure is so low that the boiling temperature for water is the same as normal human body temperature and exposure will cause all of your bodily fluids (minus your blood) to be boiled off, causing death. Armstrong's Limit/Line. Roughly 60k-62k'.
Z8KbY TIL of compass plants which tend to align their leaf blades on a North-South axis. This is the optimal alignment for minimal sunlight exposure.