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TIL that beluga whales can mimic human speech, and have caused divers to inadvertently surface due to them mimicing commands to surface

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rLZd TIL that Melbourne officials gave ID numbers to trees so the public could report damaged branches. People wrote love letters to the trees instead.
wogJY TIL about Sampson/Mammoth - the largest horse recorded. He was a Shire breed horse over 7ft tall & weighed as much as an SUV. Horses this size are becoming exceedingly rare: Both Shires and Clydesdales, large draught breeds, are endangered with less than 5,000 estimated alive worldwide.
v1dgK TIL fuel tankers are pretty sophisticated. Baffles in the tank to evenly dissipate the force of liquid moving when the truck is accelerating or braking. Without baffles, the liquid keeps moving forward to surge and push against the front wall of the tank, increasing risk of rollover.
LQD0P TIL: 2 of 920 people survived the Jonestown Massacre. Hyacinth, who hid under her bed and Grover Cleveland Davis, who was 79 years old and hard of hearing. He slept unknowingly throughout the death assembly.
Wk4No TIL About The Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a black neighborhood with thriving businesses, great housing, and education system which was home to the wealthiest black people in the 1910's, before it was burned down.