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TIL: Each type of Killer Whale may be distinct enough to classify them as different races.

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b9nY7 TIL a woman disappeared while working on a Disney cruise ship. It was believed she was assaulted & then thrown overboard. Disney seemingly covered it up, destroying evidence & lying to her family about what happened.
9Y50G TIL about Henri Charrière. Sentenced to life in prison for a murder he didn't commit, he proceeded to escape from 9 different maximum security prisons, and was later pardoned.
x6Pdo TIL: Vladimir Lenin's body is preserved and on display
9MB TIL That In May 2009, the world record for length of time That a paper glider stays in the air was set by Takuo Toda of Japan, whose paper plane glided along for 27.9 seconds.
d86E8 TIL: the "law of the instrument", a cognitive bias that involves an over-reliance on a familiar tool. As Abraham Maslow said in 1966, "I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."