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TIL narwhals are actual creatures, and not mythical ones. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Ey5P TIL not only are there radar detectors, but radar detector-detectors, and even radar detector-detector-detectors
QNJyE TIL during the reign of king Zhong Kang of the Xia fynasty of china, the royal astronomers failed to predict a solar eclipse because the astronmers were licentious and drunk at the time.Since it caused confusion among the common people, they were punished for neglecting their duties.
rRjYM TIL the catchphrase "thinking outside the box" was popularized by management consultants in the 1970s and 1980s. They used it in connection with solving the 9-dots puzzle, where lateral thinking is needed
4XLwa TIL that the current royal family of Sweden is descended from an ordinary French commoner who rose through the ranks to become a general under Napoleon and was then randomly selected to become the King of Sweden.
dDvpj TIL that sixteen people survived inside the collapse of the World Trade Center, and they were all in Stairwell B of the North Tower, in the center of the building. The survivors were spread out between floors 22 and 1.