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TIL An ER doctor received so many patients from an Amazon Warehouse in Allentown, PA he reported it to OSHA for unsafe working conditions.

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8ePR4 TIL that the world's largest snowflake ever recorded was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. It fell in Montana in 1887 and still holds the world record.
Lkmar TIL that The Sperm Whale have the largest brain and cerebrum of any known animals in existence, it weighs 5 times that of a humans brain! Neanderthals also had, on average, larger brains than modern humans.
VMAep TIL: 1856 a schoolmaster warned students not to harm his tame sparrow. One of the boys stepped on the bird and killed it. After lessons, the master took the boy into a private room and strangled him to death. The boy's father later went to the school and shot the schoolmaster dead.
D1rEV TIL that Southern live oak was a secret weapon of the USS Constitution, one of America's first naval vessels, that was nicknamed "Old Ironsides" after so many cannonballs bounced off her hull because live oak wood is a super dense wood.
MekdW Today I learned there is a zoo in Sari, Iran that used to feed live donkeys to their lions every Thursday until it was shut down because the lions were inexperienced and unable to efficiently kill their prey in a reasonable amount of time.