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

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d8Oa8 TIL that the first Polish encyclopaedia included such definitions as "Horse: Everyone knows what a horse is", and "Dragon: Dragon is hard to overcome, yet one shall try."
OJke TIL that cheetahs were almost wiped out by the last ice-age, and all modern cheetahs are descended from a small portion of the surviving cats that interbred to maintain their species. Because of this, cheetahs are practically genetic clones of one another.
gMPd4 TIL that the Yoshiro Nakamatsu, inventor of the floppy disk, would routinely almost drown himself to push his brain and body to the limit in order to feed his inventiveness.
rEJ1 TIL American poet and activist Alice Dunbar Nelson was rejected by both the white and the black society because white people found she was “too black” and black people found she was “too white”.
b6WGZ TIL the model for Ariel in the Little Mermaid, Sherri Stoner, later created and voiced Slappy Squirrel on Animaniacs