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TIL A dolphin-intelligence study resulted in a woman giving a male dolphin hand jobs.

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Bw5x TIL then mayor of San Francisco Dianne Feinstein divulged forensic evidence to the media, thereby ruining the case detectives had built up and enabling serial killer Richard Ramirez to remain at large.
VPn8 TIL of Setsuo Ishino a Kamikaze pilot who slammed his aircraft into the U.S.S Missouri during W.W.2. During the clean up the ships crew recovered his body, sewed a Japanese Flag to be used as a casket and gave the 19 year old pilot a burial at sea with full military honors.
NXX86 TIL that a snail's mouth is no larger than the head of a pin, but it can have over 25,000 teeth .
jNKRp TIL that US nuclear power plants, by law, are built strong enough to withstand the impact of a fully-loaded commercial airliner without rupturing
rkE0 TIL that humans actually knew the earth was round as early as 2500 years ago. Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the planet to an astounding accuracy of around 99%.