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TIL Dolphins have been trained to be used in wars as killers and even suicide bombers...

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LQp4V TIL that Apollo 11 astronauts couldn’t afford insurance. Life insurance for a space mission cost a lot, because the risks were extremely high back then. So instead, the astronauts of Apollo 11 signed hundreds of postal covers that their families could sell in case anything went wrong.
4X5m6 TIL people who cook from printed recipes are less likely to have a high BMI than those who get recipes from cooking shows or social media
WXjo TIL to prevent his wingman from ejecting from his damaged F-4 Phantom during Vietnam Captain Bob Pardo pushed his wingmans planes tailhook with his plane until they were out of North Vietnam.
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kO4Ve TIL that survivors of the Las Vegas shootings received death threats from conspiracy theorists