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

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Vay0 TIL Some people are actually afraid of being too happy because they think something tragic is going to happen soon. This is known as Cherophobia
rQko TIL when they were introduced in 1903, Triscuit crackers were advertised as “Baked by Electricity”
rRnJx TIL citizens of the Dutch city Zwolle are colloquially known as Bluefingers due to the 1682 sale of the town church's bells to the town of Kampen. After finding the bells too damaged for use, Kampen paid Zwolle entirely in pennies; fingers in Zwolle turned blue after counting so much change.
78Akp TIL In 1964 a criticality accident in Rhode Island at a nuclear facility resulted in the largest single full body dose of radiation in history, the equivalent of 700,000 X-rays at once | The victim died 49 hours later
awPlo TIL: According to the American Sleep Apnea Association "We should feel refreshed and alert upon awakening and not need a day time nap to get us through the day"