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TIL that the design of the I Want To Believe poster was changed throughout the X-Files series

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j9yv TIL of the ‘loneliest whale in the world’. Instead of communicating at 17/18 Hertz like most fin and blue whales, it calls at 52 Hertz making it unlikely that other whales can hear it.
PWkg TIL The Economist received a letter from Boston protesting their usage of “niggardly,” an adjective meaning stingy or miserly, because it sounded like the racial slur. The magazine, based in Britain, responded with, “Why do we get such letters only from America?”
Jpa1 TIL Budweiser sponsors a brothel in the USA
bXp0 TIL a man in Yellowstone has an 800 pound pet grizzly bear named Brutus. Brutus was the best man at his wedding and sits at the table with them at thanksgiving
ZpwoG TIL Patient “Zero” was a misunderstanding of patient “O”