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TIL walruses can give themselves oral along with a few other animals

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9YYND TIL Chinese leader Mao had relations with a 14 year old girl and the girl’s father tried to write an outraged letter to him after learning about it. But the post office brought the letter back and warned that insulting the Chairman could lead to extreme retribution or death
OoA7e TIL this purple snailfish was filmed at a depth of 5 miles using a deep sea camera-equipped lander in the Pacific Ocean's Atacama Trench located off the coast of Peru and Chile in 2018 making it the first time to ever see this species. Pink and blue snailfish were also filmed during the expedition.
Y7WXA TIL that Agatha Christie—1st recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award & "Best Writer of the Century" (Bouchercon World Mystery Conv.)—was criticized by Raymond Chandler, Julian Symons, and Edmund Wilson for being too artificial, banal, and superficial in her writings.
OG1K1 TIL a CIA agent disappeared on Kish Island, a popular tourist destination in Iran, on March 9, 2007
9rbG TIL that the Soviet Union refused to host the 1980 Paralympics, stating that none of their citizens had disabilities.