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TIL that whales closest living relatives are the hippopotamuses.
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Mk7m
TIL that when puppies play, the boys always let the girls win.
xOKo
TIL the inspiration for the webcam came from a Computer Lab of the University of Cambridge. The cam was created to help people working in other parts of the building avoid pointless trips to the coffee pot by providing a live 128×128 greyscale picture of the state of the coffee pot.
6E8BY
TIL Many cities enacted anti-spitting laws, that are still technically enforceable today, to combat tuberculosis in the 1800-1900’s which was killing more people than any other disease at the time.
P1Agn
TIL that the American Beautyberry fruit is food for more than 40 species of songbirds and eaten by armadillo, foxes, opossum, raccoon, squirrels and white tailed deer (eat fruit and leaves) in addition to being used as medicine by Native American tribes and as mosquito repellent by early farmers.
VP4D
TIL the German government does not recognize Scientology as a religion; rather, it views it as an abusive business masquerading as a religion