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TIL Dolphins deliberately chew on pufferfish to get high

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wGbM TIL That President Kennedy promised to “end housing discrimination with a stroke of the pen” when he got in to office; when he didn’t do so, Civil Rights groups sent thousands of pens to the White House in protest.
ZY74 TIL all English-language Wikipedia articles amount to just 44 GB – and they have it conveniently available for download.
pYWme TIL that Anthony Burgess wrote a musical version of his book "A Clockwork Orange", featuring music by himself and Beethoven as well as others
WkYg4 TIL when you get a sunburn, it’s not your skin cells being damaged by the sun and dying, it’s your skin cells’ DNA being damaged by the sun and them killing themselves so they don’t turn into cancer.
QNQoL TIL The firm who repaired seat covers on San Francisco's BART trains started paying people to slash the fabric, eventually accounting for 85% of vandalism reports