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

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Q0DX TIL that 5 men volunteered to stand directly under a nuclear bomb that detonated 18,500 ft above them [Video Inside]
p8Wd4 TIL it is considered important in Kazakh culture for each individual to know their family tree back at least seven generations. This is due to a strong tradition of oral history.
WkM7o TIL of Yasuke, an east african man who came into the service of Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga as a retainer in 1581 after being brought to Japan with Jesuit missionaries. When they first met Nobunaga had Yasuke's skin washed, believing it was ink only to realise that was Yasuke's natural skin colour
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dDXJK TIL that commercial fax service was in operation 11 years before the invention of the telephone