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Jun 02, 2020

TIL a Peacock is a male Peafowl. A Peahen is a female, and together they have Peachicks.

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May 15, 2020

TIL Blue Whales are the largest animal to have ever existed on Earth, being larger than all dinosaurs, and every single big sea animal from the past

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May 11, 2020

TIL Astronauts Don't Snore In Space; the lack of gravity makes it so astronauts snore less while they’re sleeping...less gravity equals less airway obstruction.

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Mar 06, 2020

TIL that in 1996, as a loss-leading tactic, British supermarkets competed so heavily on the price of baked beans that one store decided to sell them for MINUS 2p. This period is referred to by economists as The Bean Wars.

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Feb 03, 2020

TIL that the word 'SWIMS' upside down is still 'SWIMS' - This property is referred to as an ambigram

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Jan 09, 2020

TIL that during prohibition, the US government intentionally added lethal poison to industrial alcohols, knowing they were used by bootleggers and sold to the public. This federal poisoning program led to over 10,000 deaths.

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Nov 25, 2019

TIL Keanu Reeves was a successful ice hockey goalie which earned him the nickname “The Wall.” He dreamed of playing hockey for Canada but had to give it up because of an injury.

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Nov 16, 2019

TIL the Korean word for “Swiss army knife” is “maekgaibeo kal” which literally means “McGyver knife”

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Oct 27, 2019

TIL All clownfish are born male. They have the ability to switch their sex, but will do so only to become the dominant female of a group.The change is irreversible.

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Sep 27, 2019

TIL that the Portuguese man o’ war is not actually a jellyfish, but a hydrozoan siphonophore. It's also not just one organism. It is made up of separate polyp organism colonies called zooids, each serving a specific purpose, like forming tentacles for locomotion or controlling digestion.

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Sep 10, 2019

TIL that in Germany, and some other countries, there's no punishment for escaping prison. Their law consider it's a basic human instinct to want to escape, so no extra time is added to the initial sentence if no other laws are broken in order to escape.

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Jul 20, 2019

TIL about “the backfire effect,” which occurs when someone is presented with facts that contradict their preconceived worldview. Rather than admit they’re wrong, they believe the incorrect information even more.

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May 25, 2019

TIL Roughly 2% of the U.S. population, an estimated 620,000 men, died serving in the American Civil War. As a percentage of today's population the toll would have risen as high as 6 million. For every 3 soldiers killed in battle, 5 more died of disease.

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