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TIL magazine and clip are not interchangeable terms when talking about guns.

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V5EG TIL scientists didn’t discover a single male Blanket octopus until 2002 because they were looking at the wrong magnitude. Females can be up to 40,000 times more massive than males; the largest gender size discrepancy in the animal kingdom.
166E4 TIL that newborn foals have soft "tentacles" on their hooves. It's to protect the mother's uterus and birth canal from the sharp edges during pregnancy and birth.
XEDZ8 TIL in the late 1800s Australian surveyors had realised the two tallest mountains, Mt. Kosciuszko and Mt. Townsend, were mismeasured, and in fact Mt. Townsend was taller. Instead of rewriting many textbooks the NSW government decided to switch the two names, leaving us with what we have today.
7beZ TIL that despite breast cancer and prostate cancer have similar rates of mortality, breast cancer research receives twice as much government funding and twice as many grants from the American Cancer Society
yk0v TIL (Monty Python member) Graham Chapman’s last words were “Sorry for saying fuck”