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TIL only humans, orcas and pilot whales undergo menopause.

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D18lJ TIL about the "Third Defenestration of Prague". In 1618 three Catholic officials were thrown out of the window of Prague Castle by an angry mob of Protestants. This led to The Thirty Years' War - the deadliest war in European history.
oB8m8 TIL of Jürgen Hinzpeter, a German journalist who risked his life to document the 1980 Gwanju Uprising in South Korea with the help of a Korean taxi driver. He spent the remainder of his life unable to reconnect with the driver as he had given him a fake name.
Lk9r9 [TIL] Frank Herbert felt that Star Wars was a ripoff of Dune and considered suing George Lucas
BpQy TIL many passengers on a Boeing 767 crash landing in the ocean died because they inflated their life jackets too early while still inside the cabin
9PRm TIL that the Colonel-In-Chief of the Norwegian Royal Guard is a penguin