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TIL that dolphins have actual names for each other—unique whistles they use like names.

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x6ed5 TIL that King Kong vs Godzilla started out as King Kong vs Frankenstein. Written by King Kong’s co-creator and animator Willis O'Brien, the script was stolen, sold without his knowledge and retooled for Godzilla. He considered suing but died due to the stress.
69lWm TIL in 1966, CBS News sponsored an invasion of Haiti by Cuban and Hatian exiles, which they planned to film. The plan was aborted when the participants were arrested by the FBI.
7rlDP TIL In 1994 Microsoft's Bill Gates, whose fortune is estimated at nearly $7 billion, bought out all the available rooms at the 250-room hotel to keep media from staying there and reportedly hired all the helicopters on Maui to keep photographers from flying over the wedding.
aNX9 TIL that the city of Huescar forgot they were at war with Denmark until a local historian found the declaration 172 years later. No shots were fired during the war.
J18KV TIL: the 1/4" jack or the 'guitar cord jack' is the oldest connector-type still used. It was the standard for the original phone switchboards.