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TIL Killer whales can and do regularly eat swimming moose.

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5N7p TIL that Patrick Stewart’s son, Daniel, plays Picard’s son in The Inner Light, in his alternative life on Kataan.
RxGa TIL that on ships at sea there is a difference between “aye aye sir” and “yes sir”. “Aye aye sir” indicates that an order has been received, is understood and will be carried out immediately. “Yes sir” would only indicate agreement to an order.
epR64 TIL Why daily serials/T.V. shows are called daily soaps. My teacher told about this in class. A company named P&G which manufactures soaps started the practice to push soap adverts between daily serials broadcasted on t.v. mainly targeted to READCOMMENT
165mW TIL that Europeans starting using the term “Aztec” to refer to the people who lived around the city of Tenochtitlan, but that’s not what they called themselves. They referred to themselves as the Mexica.
R79QQ TIL: The Clarendon Library in Oxford has a clock that has been powered by the same batteries since 1840. To date its bells have rung over 10 Billion times.