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TIL Killer whales can and do regularly eat swimming moose.

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eZjE TIL of “Sailor Jerry Collins”, a tattoo artist who cured his own skin cancer by tattooing prescription meds, meant to be taken internally, directly on to malignant areas.
WkgrN TIL Actors that are recovering from a cocaine addiction that have to snort coke on screen can use powdered baby laxative as a prop. The regular stand in for coke on screen, powdered vitamin D is used to cut real cocaine and the familiar flavor can lead to relapses.
e0eW5 TIL more than 1 in 4 people wrongfully convicted but later exonerated by DNA evidence had made false confessions; researchers say they occur as a result of police using force, threat, exhaustion, hunger, lies, and intimidation during interrogations.
rR8Gw TIL that Disney secretly bought up 10,000 acres of land around DC to build a new theme park. It ultimately never got built because the American history theme would have been too controversial
gvey TIL that Keanu Reeves had suffered from and undergone surgery for two-level fusion of the cervical spine which had been slowly paralyzing his legs, only a few months before filming for The Matrix began. That’s why he does not kick much in the film.