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TIL that Deer antlers are actually a "controlled-form of bone cancer"

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4XYbw TIL According to his former manager, Travis Scott faked his soundcloud streams by using bots and then went to record labels and presented his fake numbers which helped him get signed.
AGPw TIL when Soviet Minister Molotov stated that the cluster bombs being dropped on Finland were actually food, the Finns began sarcastically calling the bombs “Molotov bread baskets,” which they responded to with their own “Molotov cocktails,” as “a drink to go with the food.”
b9rxj TIL In China you can hire a misstress-hunter, who will befriend the misstress by social engineering and convince her to end the relationship. Most of the time they are hired by the woman of the cheating husband, in order not to "lose face".
b9vNE TIL in 1856 an American clipper was approaching Cape Horn when its captain collapsed, leaving his 19-year-old wife to navigate through one of the world's deadliest sea passages. She commanded for 56 days, faced down a mutiny, and navigated the clipper ship into San Francisco
15AO TIL hammer head sharks have a 360-degree vision in the vertical plane, meaning they can see above and below them at all times.