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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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lobO1 TIL The UB40 song Rat in Mi Kitchen was written when Astro asked lead singer Ali Campbell if he had any new ideas for songs and Campbell, who had a rodent problem in his new house, responded, "Oh God, I don't care about the album for a minute, I've got a rat in the kitchen!"
5VP6Q TIL actor Joe Pesci hated the early unit call times in “Home Alone” since they prevented him from starting his day with nine holes of golf as he liked to do. After Pesci took the Assistant Dir. by the collar one day to complain about it, the call times were moved back from 7 to 9 A.M. just for him.
yQxJp TIL during WWII the British planned to build a giant aircraft carrier out of ice (actually a wood pulp/ice mix) to protect the convoys in the Atlantic from German U boats. The project ended owing to rising costs and the development of longer-range aircraft that closed the gap in air coverage.
9wvmM TIL that in 1984, an elephant in a German zoo killed 3 hippos by opening a water valve while playing and thus filling their pool with 55°C hot water. The water generated steam that interfered with their breathing, and the hippos (two adults and one baby) died of shock.
BDoK TIL Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary wrote a massive screenplay in 1987 called ‘The Open Road’, which would later get split into two separate screenplays called 'True Romance’ and 'Natural Born Killers’.