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TIL Scientists support the idea of giving dolphins basic human rights

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161LX TIL that a liquor-drinking celebrity goat named Ioiô won an election for city councilman in Fortaleza, Brazil
6KKl TIL there is a 42% decrease in air quality throughout the US on 4th July as a result of firework displays
bjv0 TIL when three people tried to sell Coca Cola secrets (including a sample new product) to Pepsi in 2006, Pepsi informed Coke and the FBI. Later arrests were made in a sting operation.
xpaD TIL Alice in Wonderland is not full of drug references, it is a story about a world where irrational mathematics are the basis of reality. It was written by a math professor who thought these new forms of math were ludicrous.
eor4 TIL that, during WWII, Dutch restistance leader Gerrit Kastein was captured, placed in an interrogation room and tied to a chair. Because he feared he would give up names under torture, while left alone he jumped through a closed second floor window while still attached to the chair.