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TIL Dolphins deliberately chew on pufferfish to get high

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m1WZy TIL that Winston Churchill lived to the age of 90, despite smoking and drinking to excess as well as being overweight.
kJGBB TIL that in the 1948 California Supreme Court case Perez v. Sharp, the County of Los Angeles included quotations from Mein Kampf in arguing that the state’s ban on interracial marriage should be upheld.
kOYv4 TIL Bulimia is so rare outside of western countries that the first recorded case in India resulted in a scientific publication
oYB8 TIL that the flu kills an average of 26,000 people in the United States each year.
e0oGn TIL that during WWII Merchant Seafarers had a proportionately higher death rate than any of the armed forces