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TIL Killer whales aren't whales. Despite being named whales, they are the largest species of Dolphins.

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KOKKw TIL a marine biologist has captured footage of a dreaming octopus rapidly changing color. He explains what the octopus is dreaming of when the color darkens: This is camouflage, like she's just subdued a crab and now she's going to sit there and eat it and she doesn't want anyone to notice her.
KORgw TIL that, in their natural state, olives are almost completely inedible; to combat this 99% of olives are bathed in lye, a powerful corrosive, for several days.
R74Va TIL the most famous sound effect from the cartoon series Tom and Jerry -- Tom's leather-lunged scream -- was created by recording Hanna's scream and eliminating the beginning and ending of the recording, leaving only the strongest part of the scream on the soundtrack.
epDGJ TIL that flying insects make up less than 5% of a wild Venus Flytraps diet
jNxZM TIL when he was 16 Christopher Walken worked as a lion tamer in the circus. He would often perform with a lioness named Sheba.