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Dolphins purposefully get pricked by Pufferfish to get high.

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RnP1 TIL in the final weeks of WWII, Allied torpedo bombers attacked two large German ships even though both ships were flying several large white flags. Nearly all of the 7,000 concentration camp refuges aboard these ships were killed.
PxkO TIL California (population 37,000,000) has only 58 more bars than Wisconsin (population 5,600,000)
5YAyp TIL Two Canadian universities recalled condoms provided to students to promote safe sex after stapling a note about consent on them, thus putting staple holes in the condoms
e0kR4 TIL in 1999, the mummified remains of a pregnant Hispanic woman were found in a drum in the crawl space of a house in NY. She was identified as Reyna Marroquín, a woman who’d vanished in 1969. She’d had an affair with her employer. He killed himself before police could properly question him.
kO9L4 TIL that the Chinese civil service has existed in some form for well over 2000 years starting in the Qin dynasty