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TIL Dolphins are considered “non human persons” in India.
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TIL Olive Oyl was a comic strip character for 10 years before Popeye was created.
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TIL There is a conspiracy theory that The Shining was a coded admission from Kubrick to faking the Moon landing.
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TIL when the Doors appeared on the TV show Malibu U, Jim Morrison did not show up for the taping, Robby Krieger's twin brother Ron, stood in for Jim with is back to the audience. Morrison later filmed close ups of himself on top of a building the next day.
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TIL that in 1895 a swarm of Rocky Mountain locust, measuring 1,800 miles long and 110 miles wide, blocked out the sun for five days. Thirty years later the locust was extinct.
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TIL The oboe is frequently described as a very difficult instrument to play. Because air is forced at high pressure into the tiny reed, stale air can gather in the lungs, making you feel faint if the air is not expelled quickly