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TIL A developer illegally demolished a home in San Francisco, only to have the city tell him to build an exact replica of the previous structure.

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a8BAN TIL Blue whales have the largest penises on Earth. An erect blue whale penis is 12 inches (30 cm) in diameter and ten feet in length.
e0xa6 TIL There was a research paper which claimed that people who jump out of an airplane with an empty backpack have the same chances of surviving as those who jump with a parachute. It only stated that the plane was grounded in the second part of the paper.
AyMo TIL Willem Arondeus, a gay Dutch artist and writer, helped in the resistance against the Nazi occupation in the Netherlands. He was arrested and executed. His last testimony was “homosexuals are not cowards”.
ADXv7 TIL That Ed Kemper, serial killer who killed his grandparents and mother amongst many others, voiced reading hundreds of audio books for the blind
yQZXp TIL there are less sharks now more than ever because they often habitate on the same routes as industrial fishing ships, and are caught as bycatch. As the apex predators of the oceans, sharks keep other marine life in healthy balance and help regulate the oceans. Reduce sharks numbers = reduce us.