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4k0kN TIL there is a whale known as the 52-hertz whale (also known as 52 Blue) of an unidentified species that has never been sighted, but has been heard and known to exist since the late 1980s. There was also a feature length documentary about it that Leonardo DiCaprio was an executive producer for.
4XnyJ TIL the Chinese government estimates almost 50 percent of the current housing stock — or everything built before 1999 is of such poor quality it will need to be demolished within 20 years.
R5wG8 Today I learned that most of the famous silver drachma coins of Alexander the Great were made out of captured Persian silver
PYbwE TIL Karl Schmidt, a herpetologist who was tasked with identifying a juvenile Boomslang snake, when the venomous snake bit him, instead of going to the hospital, Schmidt went home, believing the juveniles couldn’t produce a fatal bite. He recorded all his symptoms in his diary until death.
l7aA5 TIL about the DIMI-S "Sexophone", a device made by ground-breaking synthesiser pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi in 1972, which allowed up to four people to generate sounds based on how they touched each other's bodies, and apparently only reached its full expressive range if everyone involved was naked