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TIL there is a "significant relationship" between the length of a male narwhal's tusk and the size of its testes

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ANW7g TIL "Moby Dick" was in part inspired by the real-life sinking of the whaling ship Essex. Survivors of Essex resorted to cannibalism by lots, before being rescued, 89 days after the sinking.
NDXN TIL that the most brilliantly colored thing found in nature is a bright blue berry, as shiny as a mirror, that contains no pigment at all
JJlv TIL A recent study showed 25% of US drivers making a turn failed to use signals correctly. 48% of US lane changers failed to use signals. Such failures are responsible for up to 2M preventable accidents a year.
woArE TIL In 1952, the Pakistani army and Pakistani navy communicated a military signal titled “File 1971” that predicted the separation of East Pakistan. Not only did the file predict East Pakistan’s separation but the title coincidentally contains the year in which the separation actually happened
d8ORE TIL Martin Luther King Sr was also a civil rights activist who lived until 1984