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TIL Young dolphins were seen carefully manipulating a certain puffer-fish to release nerve toxins in order to get 'high'.

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oBKZW TIL that 99% of people on internet communities are lurkers and only 1% actively create new content, according to a rule known as the the 1% rule.
DQ1Yv TIL Proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) have the longest nose of all primates
mxElo TIL of Ching Shih, a woman that controlled a pirate fleet of 300 ships and around 40,000 men off the coast of China during the 1800's.
NDyJ TIL in 1920, the U.S. Department of Justice arrested thousands of innocent Americans for radical leftist activity, in what is now called the Palmer Raids
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