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TIL that between 2020 and 2023, there were over 500 orca attacks on boats around Spain, committed by as few as just 15 different orcas

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R7XA4 TIL that on the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave me “colly birds”, aka blackbirds, not “calling birds” until “calling birds” became more popular in the 1970s.
QJ6wk TIL Great White Sharks have never been observed mating and it's unknown where, how or when they do it.
PpnZ TIL an American raised an army of 60 men and successfully lead a conquest of Nicaragua and made himself president.
gbvL TIL Spaghettieis is a German ice cream dish made to look like a plate of spaghetti. In the dish, vanilla ice cream is extruded through a modified Spätzle press or potato ricer, giving it the appearance of spaghetti. It is then placed over whipped cream and topped with strawberry sauce
epZlJ TIL that in 1958, the U.S. accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a South Carolina family's backyard. While it wasn’t armed with a nuclear warhead, the conventional explosives detonated, leaving a large crater and damaging the house. Amazingly, no one was killed in what became known as the Mars