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TIL dolphins do not have vocal chords. All the sounds that we hear from them are produced with their blowhole.

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0ddvj TIL Billie Holiday was arrested on drug charges in 1947 and tried in utterly bizarre circumstances. The prosecutor asked for leniency, while her defense attorney convinced her to plead guilty, assuring her she'd be sent to a hospital. Instead, the judge sentenced her to a year in federal prison.
KOmV9 TIL about Calcio Fiorentino - A 27 on 27 sport fusing football, rugby, and literal fighting
6EY17 TIL that in the early 2000’s people complained that their Mac laptops mysteriously started giving off the smell of really bad body odor. Turns out the culprit was an adhesive used on the keyboards that started to break down after a few years, outgassing a foul smell in the process.
XJ4D TIL that people in Rome who wanted to kill themselves could apply to the Senate, and if their reasons were judged sound they were then given hemlock for free
OonXL TIL Jesse James and his brother gave an indebted widow money to pay off her mortgage the day before the bank was to take her house and insisted she get a receipt for paying the man. They then robbed the banker on his way back to the bank.