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TIL dolphins develop self awareness quicker than apes and humans

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LQAnP TIL about Catherine King and Wayne Adams, who built a floating compound on the west coast of Vancouver Island from salvaged materials and lived on it for more than 30 years.
xDJD TIL Disney has the planning permission to build a nuclear power plant (and many other powers)
mx8oO TIL when the new character Elmrya was forcefully added to the show “Pinky and the Brain” due to executives wanting to liven it up, the writers added the lyrics: “So Pinky and the Brain/ Share a new domain/ It’s what the network wants/ Why bother to complain?” to its theme song.
9YMbp TIL that Skylab, the first U.S. space station, cost $2.2 billion but was occupied for only 6 months of its 6 years in orbit. It was damaged during launch and eventually fell to Earth on July 11, 1979. The debris fell on western Australia, and the Shire of Esperance fined NASA A$400 for littering.
KYokG TIL in 1807, Aaron Burr attempted to lead a secessionist movement in the United States. Though his aims were unclear, with speculation ranging from conquering Mexico to taking the Louisiana Purchase, he was charged and ultimately acquitted due to lack of specific evidence of his ultimate goal.