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TIL that blue whales gain about 200 pounds per day for the first year of their lives

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X00PQ TIL Tiger beetles run so fast they temporarily blind themselves. When moving at up to 120 body lengths per second, their environment becomes a blur as their eyes can't gather enough light to form an image
DQJ1p TIL of the only person ever to return a Pulitzer Prize, journalist Janet Cooke, due to her fabricating a story of an 8-year-old heroin addict which triggered a city-wide search
Rnb8 TIL that when one of our fingers touches another, we perceive the sensation as weaker than when an external finger touches ours with the same force. Our brain filters the expected result of our own fingers touching in the evolutionary attempt to add importance and sensitivity to external events.
Z8W8R TIL that King Frederik VII of Denmark was the last monarch to rule in Denmark as an absolute monarch and that when he died childless in 1863, a succession crisis ensued.
gEm7 TIL that despite receiving scholarships from both Harvard and Yale, Nixon declined the offer so that he could manage the family store while his mother took care of his sick brother