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TIL there are numerous orca ecotypes spread across the globe. They don’t breed with other ecotypes and seldom interact with them.

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OG9E7 TIL that Jason Segel, known for his roles in How I Met Your Mother, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I Love You, Man, and other films, wore a Superman cape underneath his clothing until he was 13. He did so, he has said, "just in case there was trouble."
mR4Y TIL that the day after German WW1 ace Oswald Boelcke died from a crash landing following a midair collision, British pilots dropped a wreath at his airbase which read: “To the memory of Captain Boelcke, a brave and chivalrous foe.”
a7PN TIL Volvo invented the three point seatbelt and it gave free license to all other auto manufacturers to use it.
kJ9g1 TIL Isaac Newton was Master of the Mint in England for the last 30 years of his life. Although it was intended as an honorary title, he took it seriously—working to standardize coinage and crack down on counterfeits. He personally testified against some counterfeiters, leading to their hanging.
R7RZw TIL that a cattle farmer, while clearing land on his Texas ranch, wrote his name in letters a kilometer tall, producing the world’s largest signature. It lies on major flight paths into Houston and NASA uses it to evaluate satellite imagery