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TIL not one shopping mall has been built in the United States since 2006

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5Vn7r TIL that bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) each have their own distinctive whistle sounds they use to identify each other. When they hear their unique sound called out, they answer back, using their personal theme song as a way to call each other by name.
0wNZL TIL it's cheaper to adopt a black baby than other types of children. Adopting biracial, Latino, Asian or Caucasian children typically has a longer waiting list than for black children. The agencies cut the cost of adopting black children as a means of creating incentive.
Eg6dX TIL That Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson are actually brothers.
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R5Jaw TIL In 2000, while working in the Naica mine in Mexico, about 300 meters underground, two miners accidentally discovered an astonishing chamber unlike any other. Cave of the Crystals