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TIL that the Wadi-Al-Hitan site in Egypt contains hundreds of fossilized whales

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DN4Y TIL ‘Water Residence Time’ is how much time it would take to fill up a lake again if all of its water were suddenly removed. The lake with the longest water residence time is Lake Tanganyika in Africa at 5,500 years.
9YQEp TIL German engineer Bernd Brandes volunteered to be killed and eaten by aspiring cannibal Armin Meiwes, who placed an ad on the internet looking for someone to be killed and eaten. After eating Brandes and going to jail, Meiwes became a vegetarian.
P1jKL TIL that squirt consists almost entirely of urine, yes actually scientific papers have proven this
9wQOM TIL Jackie Gleason’s game show “You’re in the Picture” was so horrible that it’s second and final episode was nothing but a monologue apology by Jackie decreeing that it "laid, without a doubt, the biggest bomb in history” and "would make the H-Bomb look like a two-inch salute."
wo8BY TIL, rogue waves are a relatively new scientifically accepted phenomena, with the first evidence of one occurring in 1995, prior to this they were largely believed to be a myth