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

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D17dD TIL that there was a form of medieval torture, where the victim's feet were covered in salt water and then a goat would start licking them. Sometimes the laughter and stress from the intense tickling resulted in a heart attack or a brain hemorrhage.
8ekQP TIL actress Sydney Sweeney was valedictorian of her highschool graduating class.
0MQ5 TIL the modern handshake dates back to the 5th century BC in ancient Greece. It originated from swordsman greeting each other with their weapon hand free, showing no sign to fight.
WXZ8 TIL, After bombing of Hiroshima some people moved to Nagasaki, 165 of these survived both the atomic bombings
AN60g TIL that the stories of Sinbad, Aladdin and Ali Baba weren’t in the original Arabic versions of “One Thousand and One Nights.” Sinbad was added centuries later, and the others were added by a French translator based on stories he heard from a Syrian writer visiting Paris.