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TIL that Killer Whales are not actually whales. They're dolphins.

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epnZE TIL that the video for Weird Al's "Smells like Nirvana" was shot in the same sound stage as the clip for Smells like teen spirit and also used most of the extras from the original, including the janitor that's featured in various scenes.
aPX0 TIL out of the 10,000 members of the Communist Party USA in 1957, 1,500 were FBI informants.
DRgV TIL Kathryn Bigelow is the first and only female to win the Academy Award for Best Director, winning for the 2009 film “The Hurt Locker”
gMyy9 TIL that when Fritz Duquesne's farm was torched and mum sent to a concentration camp as part of Lord Kitchener's policy in the Second Boer War, he vowed revenge. 15 years later, during WW1, he infiltrated Kitchener's warship and signalled a German submarine, which sank the boat, killing Kitchener
8aa4Z TIL that if you find a worm in a wrapped chocolate bar, it is probably the Cocoa moth, Ephestia Elutella. When these moths are present in the factory, there’s a possibility their eggs are present in the finished product. The hatched larvae is discovered when someone bites into the chocolate.