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TIL Sperm Whales noises can hit up to 230 Db underwater, which is enough to vibrate a human to death.

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Nmy6 TIL that tomato juice in the United States is often made from tomato paste, but Canadian regulations require fresh tomatoes.
0gpy TIL Vice investigated how easy it is to acquire nuclear weapons on the black market, and got as far as an exchange for acquiring a nuclear “Dirty bomb”
5YNoD TIL that Lisa Marie Presley the daughter of Elvis Presley threw Nicolas Cage’s $65,000 engagement ring into the ocean during a fight on his yacht. Cage hired professional divers to find the ring, but the ring was never recovered.
pY9L8 TIL There is a theory as to why cuckoo egg hosts knowingly raise cuckoos: they do it or else the cuckoo will destroy their nest and kill their young.
1a6vV Almost nothing looks more orderly than chess pieces before a match starts. The first move, however, begins a spiral into chaos. After both players move, 400 possible board setups exist. After the second pair of turns, there are 197,742 possible games, and after three moves, 121 million. At every turn, players chart a progressively more distinctive path, and each game evolves into one that has probably never been played before.