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TIL Narwhals use their tusk to beat fish over the head like a pimp cane

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pYdW8 TIL as part of its foreign policy the Nixon administration actively portrayed the president as an out of control madman to try and convince hostile nations that he was capable of anything at anytime. Including nuclear war. Nixon dubbed this strategy "Madman Theory".
nWaxd TIL that cryovolcanoes exist!
N7o0N TIL Ashrita Furman has set more than 600 official Guinness Records and currently holds 226 records including the record for having the most records.
xVkW5 TIL that Vincent Price did the monologue for Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in one take.
OwQg TIL more than 130 years after Darwin suggested that a large moth pollinated an African orchid, his 1862 hypothesis was confirmed. Darwin had postulated the existence of an otherwise unknown species of insect based purely on the size of the flower and his understanding of evolution and ecology.