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TIL If a male lion is neutered it’s mane will fall out.

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oBWOE TIL that when Victor Vescovo reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest trench in the world, he discovered a plastic bag and candy wrappers at 10,928 metres (35,849 ft.) below the surface, confirming that human-generated waste can pollute even the deepest parts of the ocean
x6K5k TIL that the point of the oxygen mask before surgery is to get your lungs to 100% oxygen so when the anesthesiologist injects the general anesthesia they have time to insert the tube while you are breathing
kJW67 TIL Despite only playing in 112 games and having only 74 at-bats in his career, Terrance Gore has won three(3) World Series.
GY0pE TIL up to 95% of kangaroos are left "handed". In contrast to humans, who are 90% right handed.
QNnXk TIL the book 'Theory of Games and Economic Behavior', by mathematician John von Neumann and economist Oskar Morgenstern, led to the creation of an entirely new field of research, known as game theory, which is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions.