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TIL a healthy coral reef will sound like popcorn popping

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5wMP TIL that sand tiger shark fetuses kill and eat each other in the womb. Only the strongest survives to be born ‘a metre long and already an experienced killer’
8eAZP TIL the American football is a prolate spheroid.
OGOP7 TIL the word helicopter is not derived from combining “heli” and “copter” but by combining helico from the Greek for “spiral” and pteron from the Greek for “wing.”
PjXe TIL the henchman Bond kills with a statue in You Only Live Twice is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s maternal grandfather.
0JW5 TIL There is still an American POW in Afghanistan. Bowe Bergdahl was captured by the Taliban in 2009.