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TIL a NASA-funded research project led to a dolphin being given LSD, and sexual encounters between the dolphin and the scientist

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YWgW TIL NASA stated that the use of nuclear power saved an average of over 1.8 million lives between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution though reduced coal usage.
VDwm TIL of the Ocoee Massacre, on election day 1920 over 50 to 60 African Americans were killed when one African American man attempted to vote.
pN6G TIL There is a movie called “The Man with the Smallest Penis in Existence and the Electron Microscope Technician Who Loved Him” and it has a higher score on IMDB than the first Twilight movie
xVXrg TIL a 2-to-4 hour long uninterrupted transmission of a burning log has been broadcasted every Christmas by WPIX, from 1966 to 1989 and from 2001 to the present.
Z8BVR TIL The speed of sound is different on Mars from what it is on Earth