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TIL Sperm whale sonar clicks are so loud they can do physical harm to divers.

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neZJ7 TIL that Edgar Allan Poe is considered one of the founders of the Detective Genre. He created one of the first detectives who solves mysteries based on the facts of the crime. He is credited with inventing the “least likely suspect” trope, as well as the culprit framing another by planting evidence
x6Nd1 TIL Veronica Lake was six months pregnant at the beginning of production Sullivan's Travels (1941), a fact she did not disclose to director Preston Sturges until filming began. Costume designer Edith Head was tasked to find ways of concealing Lake's pregnancy.
MQvA TIL a South African woman survived being raped, disemboweled and almost completely decapitated
OonA4 TIL that grapefruit has a number of adverse drug interactions, and when eaten with certain drugs, can lead to accidental overdoses
d8De9 TIL: The Dominican Republic used a constitutional rewrite and the courts to retroactively revoke the citizenship of anyone of Haitian decent. Over 200,000 Dominican citizens became stateless as a result. [7:09 mark]