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TIL Orcas wear dead salmon as hats.

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e0bXL TIL that between 1869 and 1923, seven out of the eleven US Presidents were born in Ohio.
6wOQ TIL The US military still uses 8-inch floppy disks to run its nuclear program. They are used to coordinate intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear bombers and tanker support aircraft.
WXeL TIL that a 6 century B.C. Indian Physician wrote a book describing modern surgical techniques of incisions, cauterization, prostate g, urethral stricture dilatation, hernia , caesarian , fistulae and many others
DmZD TIL That King Charles II of Spain and last of the Spanish Hapsburg rulers was so inbred that his grandmother was also his aunt and all of his great-grandparents were cousins.
574R TIL of a kingdom in the Niger Delta which held no military authority over its citizens whatsoever, believed all violence was an abomonation, and served as a safe haven for all refugees and slaves for a thousand years, all the way up untill 1911.