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TIL there are at least 10 different types of Orca (Killer) Whales

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Db1v TIL: the Non Human Rights Project a small team of lawyers who are trying to give intelligent animals legal rights like we have.
MK98 TIL in Sept 1940 the UK sent the US documents for improved radar, the jet engine, feasibility of an atomic bomb, rocket designs, plastic explosives & more; tech that would lead to victory, the nuclear age, jet age & said to be the “most valuable cargo ever brought to our shores”; in a single trunk.
wEr7 TIL Robert Downey Jr. was suspended from high school for stealing an Iron Man comic book from a classmate
GvVG TIL: Cuba was caught sending Weapons to North Korea just over a year ago
Me5LV TIL the Chinese city of Fancheng held out for nearly 6 years against the Mongols - until Kublai Khan's nephew sent him Muslim engineers from Iran that built counterweight trebuchets, with a range of 1,600 ft. and launching projectiles weighing 660 lbs. The city fell within a few days.