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TIL whales are getting sun burns due to a weakened ozone layer

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BrLvD TIL of the Voyager Golden Record, which was launched with Voyager 1 and designed to represent Earth. It includes the sound of whales, Beethoven's compositions, a printed president from President Carter, a woman's brainwaves while thinking about love, the sound of waves crashing, among other sounds.
v4Nx TIL that actor Colin Firth is credited as a co-author of paper on the link between brain structure and political alignment because he suggested that the connection could be studied
6ggl TIL: The producer of the James Bond movies is a woman. She casts Bond, his girls and decides on the stories. Barbara Broccoli is in business for 30 years leading the most successful cinema franchise.
kO0GW TIL that on the first night of Jerry Sandusky's prison sentence, inmates taunted him all night singing the Pink Floyd lyrics, "Hey, teacher! Leave those kids alone!"
b6jB7 TIL during the initial localization of Pokémon Nintendo of America proposed to change Pikachu to look like "something like a tiger with huge breasts" according to Pokémon Company president Tsunekazu Ishihara