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TIL There was a Beluga whale that learned how to mimic human speech and additionally told a diver to get out if his tank

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GA7ZJ TIL Exxon paid less than 4% of the cleanup they promised after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989
XJ5j TIL Bill Nye once entered a Steve Martin look-alike contest and won.
QJyv9 TIL That in order to circumvent a ban on shorts, Swedish male train drivers have started wearing skirts to work.
y1rl TIL that William Marston was a polyamorous psychologist and inventor whose wife, Elizabeth Holloway, inspired him to create a female superhero who triumphed via love (Wonder Woman), and the affinity for metallic bracelets worn by their partner, Olivia Byrne, inspired Wonder Woman’s iconic bracelets.
owxR TIL that Andrew Wakefield, a former British doctor known for his fraudulent claim that vaccines cause autism, bribed small children for samples of their blood. This was done at his son’s birthday party without consent from the children’s parents.