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TIL Scientists support the idea of giving dolphins basic human rights

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Nra6 TIL in 2008, while promoting a new High School Musical film , Disney had to withdraw a line of young girls underwear from the shelves after they were deemed too sexually suggestive. Why? They had the slogan “Dive in” written on the front.
Y9oA TIL that Weird Al Yankovic turned down a $5 million beer endorsement because he said “a lot of my fans are young and impressionable”.
6ENZJ TIL the Unabomber was a math prodigy, started at Harvard at 16, and received his Masters and his PhD in mathematics by the time he was 25. He also had an IQ of 167.
j6o6N TIL Donkeys have crosses on their backs
nOdB TIL Venezuela had the world’s 4th highest GDP per capita in 1950; trailing only the United States, Switzerland, and New Zealand.