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TIL only sunfish use their dorsal (top) and anal (bottom) fins for propulsion

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BlGW TIL doctors who spent at least three hours a week playing video games made about 37 % fewer mistakes in surgery and performed the task 27% faster than non-gaming surgeons.
Yp9JP TIL that Mount Saint Elias lies on the border of Alaska and Yukon and it's the second highest mountain in both the USA and Canada because only Denali is higher in the US and only Mount Logan is higher in Canada
ekmE TIL that the Mariner 1 probe, which was meant to orbit Venus, failed because of a missing hyphen in a line of code.
4Oab TIL that in 2004, a 19m tall sculpture of Jesus, named “King of Kings”, was erected in Ohio. It was the 7th tallest statue in the United States at the time. In 2010, it was struck by lightning and was destroyed by the subsequent fire.
0wAyL TIL After WWII ended in Europe, German soldiers in US custody were not considered POW’s. No longer protected by the Geneva Convention they were not entitled to similar shelter or the same quantities of food as U.S. troops. Consequently, tens of thousands of prisoners died from hunger and disease