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TIL there are actually three species of bottlenose dolphin: the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (T. aduncus), and Tamanend's bottlenose dolphin (T. erebennus).

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Mekym TIL that George Meegan walked from the southern tip of South America to the northernmost part of Alaska, an unbroken walk of 19,019 miles.
K7x9 TIL while working on “Malcolm In The Middle,” Bryan Cranston joined a song writers guild so that he got paid royalties for the tunes he hummed and whistled on the show. He threw parties for the cast and crew with the royalty cheques and as a result the crew encouraged more humming.
Ll5m TIL The time it takes our sun to orbit the center of the Milky Way is called a “Galactic Year” and is ~225 million Earth years. By that definition, dinosaurs went extinct last year, our sun is an adult at 18.4 years old, and the Big Bang happened just 61 years ago.
nGoY TIL the first person to cycle around the globe, Thomas Stevens, did it on a penny-farthing, between 1884 and 1886, packing only socks, a spare shirt, a revolver and a raincoat that doubled as a tent and bedroll
1doP TIL Colby Nolan, a cat, was granted an MBA from Trinity Southern University of Texas in 2004 as part of an investigation to uncover the school as a diploma mill