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TIL the NOAA gives financial awards to shipping lines who reduce vessel speed to protect whales

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PYQoL TIL when California two-spot octopuses (a specific species) were submerged in an ecstasy solution, they got calmer and more sociable with other octopuses they previously ignored. While this showed they react similarly to humans on MDMA, this was a pilot experiment that needs further research.
gMDYA TIL in 2007 a group of traders managed to lose $9 billion by first insuring mortgages that they didn't realise were very risky, and then doubting that a default rate that would make their portfolio unprofitable would be possible.
8N68 TIL The UK had to cancel a lottery because players didn’t understand negative numbers
w7m8 TIL that Thailand is the second most common place for American tourists to die abroad, after Mexico.
NXvle TIL R. Lee Ermey was the only person ever allowed to improvise dialogue in a Kubrick film.