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TIL that the artist who painted the Age of Reptiles mural at the Yale Peabody Museum--Rudolph Zallinger--also did the March of Progress: the oft-parodied image of the evolutionary steps to Homo Sapiens

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VMX10 TIL that until 1991 there was a 3 acre aquarium in Montreal. The aquarium closed down after all of the dolphin trainers went on strike, leaving the dolphins unfed for 38 days and causing most of them to die
gJ8A TIL that Tsutomo Yamaguchi (the man who survived both atom bombs) traveled 180 miles home to return to work despite his intense injuries from the first bomb. When he arrived at work his boss didn’t believe that one bomb destroyed all of Hiroshima. Then the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
looVA Short answer: Yes
w5m8 TIL Volkswagen has designed a production car that has a fuel consumption of 0.9L/100km (260mpg)
0wkAA TIL that the United States Congress has not issued a formal declaration of war since June of 1942 (against Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania). And the USA has never "lost" such a Congressionally-declared war.