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TIL a 4-yr-old captive beluga whale who'd been living with belugas moved to a dolphinarium where her only companions were dolphins. In her early days with the dolphins, she made beluga "contact calls." Within 2 months, the beluga imitated dolphin whistles & dropped the beluga calls altogether.

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0rm1 TIL the 321 area code in Florida stands for 3, 2, 1 Liftoff!
R5Rvl TIL Jimi Hendrix was inspired to record "All Along The Watchtower" after hearing The Alan Bown play it live one night. But due to delays and their record company not thinking it would be a hit single The Alan Bown released their version after Hendrix. It became one of Hendrix's biggest hits.
b6o1a TIL Hopscotch is listed among the games prohibited by Buddha.
Oo6n7 TIL that Dolph Lundgren has a master's degree in chemical engineering and had a Fulbright scholarship to MIT in 1983. He left MIT when actress Grace Jones, whom he was having a relationship with, convinced him to move to NYC and take up acting.
yVa4v TIL about 16th-century Dutch linguist Johannes Goropius Becanus. He argued that Dutch was the original language of creation spoken in paradise, that Adam & Eve were Dutch, that the Garden of Eden was located in the Netherlands, and that ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs derived from Dutch