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TIL In 1978, a bolt got lodged in a bottlenose dolphin's (named Mr. Spock) throat during tank maintenance. With surgery ruled out as too dangerous, Northen CA theme park, Marine World, reached out ... (www.usatoday.com)
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Til Americans have accumulated $21 billion Worth of unused gift cards. Almost 2/3 of people have a card and half of those will likely lose the gift card before using it (www.cnn.com)
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TIL that the plant and color “fuschia” is actually spelled “fuchsia,” (pronounced fook-see-ya, not fyoo-shah) and named after a German botanist named Leonhart Fuchs. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that some people suffer from a rare condition that causes all noise to be unbearably loud, painful, and makes living a normal life almost impossible (my.clevelandclinic.org)
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TIL: In 2011, a UK man was legally banned from having sex due to his IQ of 48, the judge stating that despite his sex drive, he didn't have the mental capacity to understand health risks and should... (www.nbcnews.com)
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Today I learned that if we lived on Mars, we would soon develop orange skin. (www.nbcnews.com)
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TIL director Kevin Smith attended a protest at the debut of his own movie, "Dogma" (1999), and was interviewed by the local news station. (youtu.be)
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TIL of Taos Pueblo, a Native American 'Pueblo' built between 1000CE and 1450CE, containing some of the oldest continuously inhabited houses still occupied in the US (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL - the concept of animals going exinct wasn't accepted until the 1800s. Prior to this, if an extinct animal skeleton or fossil was discovered, people assumed it came from a species still around ... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that despite the fact that 75% of the world's tornadoes happen in the US, the deadliest Tornadoes happen in Bangladesh. Of the 43 recorded Tornadoes with at least 100 people killed, 20 of them ... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the bow of the USS New York was forged using 7.5 tons of recycled World Trade Center steel (www.defense.gov)
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TIL the team captain of the Thai soccer team that was rescued from the caves 5 years ago died from head injuries during a soccer camp in the UK 5 months ago (www.bbc.com)
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TIL: Lead is still a major pollutant and are largely being recycled under dangerous conditions by largely extremely poor populations. (e360.yale.edu)
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TIL Actress Jessica Alba's frequently sued Honest Company has lost 91.88% of its share value since it was listed two years ago. (www.nasdaq.com)
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TIL that not only did Barbie creator Ruth Handler name Barbie after her daughter Barbara, but she then named Ken after her son Kenneth. (people.com)
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TIL toilet paper wasn’t “splinter free” until the 1930’s (www.history.com)
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TIL that the Gold Rush stimulated economies around the world. Farmers in Chile, Australia, and Hawaii found a huge new market for their food; British manufactured goods were in high demand; clothin... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that Adolphe Sax, the son of instrument designers, was prone to accidents. As a kid, he fell from a 3-story height, drank acidic water he mistook for milk, swallowed a pin, fell into a frying p... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL: The average age of a first time home buyer in the United States has increased to 36 years (www.cbsnews.com)
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TIL: There is a Japanese legend about pirates rescuing a woman, who then slept with them then cut off their testicles. They threw her back into the ocean, where she turned into a Sazae-oni (demon) ... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL In 1973, Keith Moon, the drummer for rock band The Who, passed out in the middle of a show. A random guy from the audience named Scot Halpin walked on stage and filled in on drums to finish the... (www.loudersound.com)
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TIL According to a 2009 study, the oldest words in the English language include “I“, “we“, “who“, “two” and “three“, all of which date back tens of thousands of years. The discovery was made by tra... (onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca)
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TIL Crows and other bird species will coat themselves in ants. Researchers aren’t sure why birds do this, but have called the process “anting”. (www.npr.org)
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TIL If you speak only one language you are a minority(40%) as most of the world speaks two(43% of people) or more languages. (www.newsdle.com)
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TIL the quickly drying Colorado River’s #1 outflow of water is to feed cows (www.vox.com)
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