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TIL Sea Otters have the densest fur of any mammal in the world

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oBdYr TIL That the Methuselah star maybe older than the estimated age of the universum.
p81oQ TIL of the Greek genocide instigated by the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish National Movement in Anatolia (1914-1922) resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Greeks.
GY7Oj TIL: The letters Q, W and X were illegal in Turkey for 85 years until 2013 because the letters were associated with the Kurdic language. Enforcement wasn't that strict for Western companies (like Xerox), but in 2005 a group of Kurds was fined 100 lira for holding up signs with the letters
W7oa8 TIL about the Sand Creek Battle that occurred on November 1864 when a 675 man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in southeastern Colorado Territory killing and mutilating an estimated 69 to over 600 Native American people.
OGBQY TIL Each of your 10,000,000,000,000 cells has 1.8 meters of DNA.