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TIL that whale carcasses sequester a huge amount of carbon in the ocean

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jNjBv TIL nearly 50 percent of Canadian soldiers are overweight, 25 percent of them are being obese, and 6.1 percent of them are morbidly obese
WOE8 TIL Max Planck’s wife and all four of their children died tragically. Their second son died in WWI, their daughter died during child birth, her twin sister married the widower and herself also died during child birth and the remaining son was executed for a failed assassination attempt on Hitler.
dDDZQ TIL about the Nizari Ismaili state, better known as the hashashin. A religious state founded by Hassan-I sabbah who waged a war against the Seljuk empire using assassination and guerilla warfare before the state was destroyed by the mongols.
XEWOr TIL in The Goonies the director Richard Donner didn't let the child actors see One-Eyed Willy's ship so they could have a genuine reaction. When they first saw the ship some of them started to swear. So they had to use the 2nd take in the final cut.
xBb7 TIL Ernest Hemingway, his father, his brother, his sister and his granddaughter all committed suicide.