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TIL that the bumps on humpback whales are giant sensory hair follicles, and that the purpose of the hairs is still unclear

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MeVZ8 TIL that Old Faithful was once used to do laundry. Clothes were placed in the geyser prior to an eruption, and the clothes would then be ejected thoroughly cleaned.
BrdbK TIL when Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he carried with him a piece from the Wright brothers' first airplane
J1B8m TIL the Iowa Writer’s Workshop was used to fight communism abroad and domestically from the 1940s through the 1970s, and received substantial funding from the CIA to do so.
n1ad TIL “biweekly” can mean both “twice a week” and"every two weeks"
p8QrZ TIL The life expectancy for an 80-year-old ranges from 8 to 10 years in high-income countries but is only 4,5 years for 90-year-olds. For nonagenarians being able to rise from a chair without using hands, the average remaining lifespan was 1.6 to 1.7 times as high as that for men and women