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TIL scientists can determine a blue whale's age by counting the layers of it's waxlike earplugs after it passes away.

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e0BpE TIL that Neil Armstrong Had to Go Through U.S. Customs after Returning from the Moon
QJDnL TIL That California’s Disneyland and Florida’s Disneyworld have a chronic issue of people spreading the ashes of their loved ones on rides. It happens at least once a month, and rides have to be shut so they can be cleaned.
k4ge TIL Mary J. Blige hit her own husband in the face and screamed, “What are you gonna do, Chris Brown me?”
grry8 TIL the Adam and Eve also existed within Canaanite mythology. Adam was a god who was sent down by the great gods to save the tree of of life, and the world, from the serpent.
x6LYD TIL about Qian Xuesen, an early scientist at Jet Propulsion Lab who was later accused of being a communist and was deported to China where he helped start that country's satellite and rocket industries, a move a US Secretary of Navy later said was "the stupidest thing this country ever did"