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TIL scientists believe dolphins can effectively send each other “images” via echolocation by recreating the sound profile an object.

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BrGAe TIL North Korean Kim Jong Il leader visited Pudong, the hotbed of China's information industry, saying he wanted to gain and to learn from China. Chinese President Jiang Zemin also travelled to Pyongyang for three days to build friendship with North Korea
V5L4 TIL: The Mercedes-Benz SLS has explosive bolts that separates the doors from the car for easy exit during a serious accident.
e8Kk TIL that the reason so many traditional legal terms come in pairs (aid and abet, null and void, part and parcel, will and testament) is that old English courts used English terms along with Latin or French terms to avoid confusion.
km44 TIL: The USS Cyclops, which went missing in 1918 during WWI remains the single largest loss of life in U.S. Naval history not directly involving combat, and the fate of the ship is unknown still to this day.
LlQr TIL the Korean military created a professional StarCraft team so their country’s top player could continue to compete while he was in the Air Force.