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TIL that elephant seals can hold their breath for over 100 minutes and dive to depths of over 5,000ft below the surface of the ocean

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gMLr4 TIL, it takes a photon up to 100,000 years to travel to the surface of the sun but only 8 minutes for it to then reach the earth.
Wk04 TIL that the Milky Way has other galaxies as satellites.
nGmW TIL the Maasai tribe rarely killed elephants because they believe they have human-like souls. However, ethnic violence and droughts have greatly hurt their traditional way of life and the high price of ivory has induced many Maasai to risk jail and tribal shame, and start poaching elephants.
YpDAA TIL the entire reason Porgs exist in the Last Jedi is because the island they filmed on is a Puffin sanctuary, which included a ton of Puffin extras they had to explain
grd98 TIL U.S. President Grover Cleveland's granddaughter Philippa Foot is credited with inventing the thought experiment known as the Trolley Problem.