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TIL that dolphin squeaks show the same 45 degree pattern as any other written language when the words are graphed out

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PYrxw TIL when Julie Andrews received her damehood in 2000, Queen Elizabeth said to her that she’d ‘been waiting for this for a very long time.’ One of Julie Andrews’ earliest performances was at age 13, singing “God Save the King” before a then Princess Elizabeth.
1O0P TIL that J.P. Morgan personally led a reverse-bailout of the US economy. Twice.
pYwrN TIL about the Union Army Balloon Corps, a branch of the Union Army during the American Civil War. It employed a group of prominent American aeronauts and seven specially built, hydrogen balloons to perform aerial reconnaissance on the Confederate States Army.
lok5A TIL in Sierra Leone, before getting a driver's license, you have to buy a board game called "The Drivers' Way" and play it at least once. The game involves rolling stoplight-themed dice and moving models of classic cars around a board, together with answering questions about the country’s road laws
Y7MGA TIL that Turtle shells are part of their anatomy, and not some empty space where they retract