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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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Zap4 TIL Sweden has the highest incidence of reported rapes in Europe and one of the highest in the world.
OGBng TIL of someone even more insane than Leonid Rogozov, the surgeon in Antarctica who removed his own Appendix... Jock McLaren only had veterinary experience and did the same thing in 1944, except without any anesthesia at all and just a pocket knife and mirror.
NKEJ TIL in 1898 Andrew Carnegie offered President McKinley $20 million to free the Philippines instead of annexation. The US paid Spain $20 million to annex the Philippines at the end of the Spanish-American war, sparking the Philippine-American war that cost at least 200,000 Filipino civilian lives.
GwMJ TIL that there is a version of the Bible translated into Hawaiian Pidgin called “Da Jesus Book”
kOZp1 TIL about Jerusalem Syndrome, an acute psychotic disorder which causes some people who visit Jerusalem to slip into a psychosis and believe they’re a biblical figure