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TIL that Blue whales are so enormous that a human being could swim through their largest veins and arteries.

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GYbE5 TIL of Ken Alibek, last USSR 1st Deputy Director of Biopreparat. Before defecting to the US in 1992 he destroyed vast bioweapon (BW) stockpiles and production facilities but could not stop all future BW work in Russia. His 1999 book Biohazard details the USSR’s secret, treaty-violating BW program.
J1a7V TIL the United States also gifted France with their own Statue of Liberty
9wAaG TIL Killer Whales are considered natural predators of moose. Moose have been attacked while swimming between islands in northern Canada and Alaska.
JYarl TIL that Howard Hughes' aides shipped 350 gallons of his favorite ice cream from LA : Baskin-Robbins' banana nut.A few days after the order arrived, Hughes said he was tired of banana nut and wanted only French vanilla.Desert Inn ended up distributing free banana nut to casino customers for a year.
yVoXv TIL a US train company plans to connect major Northeast metropolitan hubs, including a one-hour service from DC to NYC, with the world's fastest high-speed trains (operational speed of 310 mph - 500 km/h)