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TIL Caribbean Sperm Whales have regional accents and dialects, and tend to associate only with other whales that have the same "culture" as they do.

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9Yp1M TIL a 10 year old boy in China spent 2 years collecting 160,000 plastic bottles, raising $2,700. He donated all this money, and his own savings of $30, to orphans of AIDS victims.
1apQO TIL that according to the Deadpool 2 screenwriters the post-credits scene is in canon and the voice of the mystery villain is Ryan Reynolds
J1p5V TIL that the Yahgan people in South America are the world's southernmost human population. They were decimated by diseases introduced by Europeans and the last full-blooded Yahgan died in 2022 due to COVID-19. Today, the total population of the Yahgan is less than 1,600.
7re6L TIL Barry, a mountain rescue dog in Switzerland, saved more than 40 lives of stranded people buried under avalanches during his lifetime (1800-1814).
dDgr TIL that in 1933, Dr. W. Franklin Dove, a biologist, created a “unicorn bull.” It became leader of the herd, but was also “unusually gentle and mild mannered.”