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TIL Scientists support the idea of giving dolphins basic human rights

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Z19D TIL that shipping is the most important industry in Greece. Greek shipping companies control the world’s largest merchant fleet of over 5000 ships including, among others, 1/3 of world’s tankers and ¼ of all bulk carriers by tonnage. Greek flag is the first-most-used internationally for shipping.
aj8b TIL French fashion designer, Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel (1883 –1971), along with being anti-semitic, homophobic, and addicted to morphine, was a spy for the Third Reich.
negkd TIL the blacknose dace, now one of the most widespread fish in the eastern US, suffered a severe range contraction during the Ice Age and was restricted to a single area: what is now modern-day Connecticut. After the Ice Age ended, the dace recolonized the whole East Coast in as little as 75 years.
wDaW TIL one of the first instances of a stored computer program was in 1801, when Joseph Marie Jacquard demonstrated a loom that wove fabrics based on hole-punched cards that were fed into the machine.
wL9g6 TIL that the last CIA station chief in Vietnam sent the final telegram that read "This will be final message from Saigon station... It has been a long fight and we have lost..." before he evacuated on May 1, 1975