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TIL there’s a poker hand called Anna Kournikova because “it looks great but never wins”

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97Nr TIL in 1978, then-NBA center Clifford Ray saved a dolphin’s life by using his 45 inch reach to grab a screw the dolphin had swallowed. He received instruction over the phone from a veterinarian, who told him how to reach up and into the dolphin’s second stomach to extract the screw.
x6Ae1 TIL M. Night Shyamalan wrote the screenplay for Stuart Little.
Egnew TIL that when Unsolved Mysteries aired a segment on missing child Nyleen Marshall, they were contacted by a man who thought he might have gone to school with Nyleen. This turned out not to be Nyleen, but a different missing child, Monica Bonilla, who had been abducted by her noncustodial parent.
O0AL TIL Norway introduced salmon sushi to the Japanese
R5xZ8 TIL that lobsters can discard their limbs in a process called "reflex amputation": new limbs then grow to replace them.