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TIL the dolphin who played Flipper committed suicide and there are other cases of captive dolphins doing the same.

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GA7ZJ TIL Exxon paid less than 4% of the cleanup they promised after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989
Rd69 TIL the Soviet government advised those working on the Chernobyl disaster to drink half a glass of vodka for every two hours in Chernobyl. The radiation was supposed to accumulate in the thyroid glands and the vodka was thought to help clean out the radiation.
ABxd TIL most mammals live for the same number of heartbeats before dying, from elephants to shrews.