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TIL Dolphin moms use ‘baby talk’ with their newborns

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ZgxG TIL a 14 year old boy started drinking gasoline in a quest to become like Optimus Prime.
grEo4 TIL "One nation, under God" isn't a centuries-old relic, rather it was added as recently as in 1954.
0w1Zv TIL that Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hung in Great Britain, being sentenced to the gallows in 1955 for the murder of her lover after becoming embittered by his cheating ways
jN1XQ TIL Jungles cover only 6% of the earth but contain over half the species on the planet.
4X5Ag TIL, the first human flight was in 875 AD. Abbas Ibn Firnas built a glider out of silk and feathers and flew for 10 minutes, but didn't quite work out how to slow the landing until after the flight and was injured. There is a crater on the moon named after him.