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TIL that while dolphins are known to be intelligent and friendly, some males are known to bash unrelated dolphin calves to death so they are able to mate with their mothers. They also practice herding, in which many males pressure a female for sex using displays of aggression.

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GAPb5 TIL that in 16th-century France, Martin Guerre vanished for eight years, only for an impostor to take his place, fooling even his wife. The real Martin eventually returned during the court trial just as the impostor was almost found innocent of not being an impostor.
R5bOl TIL that human beings share around 20 percent of their genes with a banana. These genes' functions are most likely basic housekeeping proteins involved in metabolic processes that are necessary for most, if not all, eukaryotic life (who have cells with a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles).
QNZke TIL of Hannie Schaft, a Dutch resistance fighter known as "the girl with the red hair" during WWII. She committed assassinations and sabotage but refused to kidnap a Nazi official's children. During her execution, she was shot and injured, challenging her killers by saying, "I shoot better."
X0JkD TIL a man was so angry that teenagers pranked him by ringing his doorbell and leaving that he rammed their car with his causing them to hit a tree at high speed, killing three of him; he was sentenced to life in prison
oVx7 TIL that North Korea formally adopted EMV (chip) debit and credit cards in late 2012, leaving the US the sole remaining holdout country that still hasn’t officially adopted a transition timeline for it.