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TIL The blue whale is not only the largest animal currently on the planet, but the largest animal to have ever existed

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8agaG TIL elementary school children in Japan came together online by creating a virtual graduation ceremony in a Minecraft-rendered graduation hall with students attending as Minecraft avatars.
l0j7 TIL Disney renamed “Rapunzel” to “Tangled” and “Snow Queen” to “Frozen” because they blamed feminine titles for underperforming box offices.
GAQ4G TIL: Famine is not a natural disaster — nearly all historical famines, such as the Irish Potato Famine, are primarily man-made.
AD1Yw TIL of involuntary parks, areas rendered unsuitable for human habitance (by acts of mankind) that have since returned to its original, wild state as a result, like the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone for example.
VBrR8 TIL that the original recipe for Coca-Cola contained the psychoactive chemical cocaethylene, which is created when cocaine is combined with alcohol