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TIL Dolphins deliberately chew on pufferfish to get high
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TIL that the last notable author to make the Catholic Church's "banned books" list was Simone de Beauvoir. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was discontinued no sooner than 1966.
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TIL of Chick Donohue, a merchant marine who took a bartender’s suggestion and made a daring visit to Vietnam in 1967 as a civilian to deliver beer to his soldier buddies
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TIL “Reductio ad Hitlerum” is a term for trying to derail an argument by comparing it to Hitler’s or the nazi party’s views.
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TIL Tom Cruise once witnessed a unknown pedestrian get hit by a car that fled the scene, summoned an ambulance, followed it, and paid the victim’s $7K emergency room bill once he discovered she was uninsured.
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TIL the defamation laws are such in Japan that you can sue someone for publicly damaging your character - even if what they said is true.