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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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d8njd TIL of a non-theistic religion called the Church of Body Modification which practises piercing, scarification, plastic surgery, firewalking, corsetry and fasting in order to live a spiritually complete life
JYBm TIL that the most decorated unit in US military history is the 442nd Infantry Regiment, which was made up mostly by Japanese-American volunteers during WWII.
Y4lx TIL of the term “Steatopygia” which refers to the genetic trait most notably found in African women that causes them to have large posteriors.
vDgK TIL In 1915 a man sentenced to death by firing squad. He was shot 10 times including a final shot in the head. He somehow survived, crawled away and found help. He became a local legend and toured with Ripley’s Believe it or Not before dying in 1975.
GALyQ TIL that spiders do not sleep.