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TIL Zach Braff beat up a 12 year old for spraying fake paint on his Porsche as a part of a prank on the show Punked. The scene was edited out.

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Z8dPR TIL Pelorus Jack was a dolphin that used to guide ships through a notoriously dangerous channel in New Zealand. In 1904 someone aboard the SS Penguin tried to shoot Jack with a rifle, he survived and continued to guide all ships except the SS Penguin.
QNMrp TIL it took ~400,000 years following the Big Bang for the Universe to cool down enough to allow atoms to form
MvGm TIL - The Navy has a goat as a mascot because goats were common on ships to serve as a source of food and leather. Cows were too big and became dangerous in rough seas. Goats can also swim.
v1x5K TIL that physicist Wallace Sabine was assigned the impossible task of fixing the sound quality of a poorly designed lecture hall. Despite having no background in acoustics, he discovered a relationship between chamber size, absorption surface and sound quality. Thus founding the field of acoustics.
awl8M TIL of John Ruffo, a fugitive who in 1998 was convicted of a scheme to defraud US and foreign banking institutions of 350 million dollars. He was last sighted in 2001, visiting community banks trying to open an account so he could receive $250 million of wire transfers from Nigeria.