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TIL there is a 103 year old orca whale named Granny. She predates the Titanic!

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GArDQ TIL How People Study?
xVK4g TIL about the 'thousand-yard stare', which is a phrase often used to describe the blank, unfocused gaze of soldiers who have become emotionally detached from the horrors around them. It is also sometimes used more generally to describe the look of dissociation among victims of other types of trauma.
W77wL TIL - In 1994, 62 children at the Ariel School in Johannesburg claimed to have seen spacecraft land in their schoolyard
nwn9 TIL that the big US banks own 5 vacant homes for every homeless person
EgEJP TIL Chinese women in the Ming and Qing dynasties would point out their medical issues on ivory dolls instead of being touched by, or discussing their problem with, a physician.