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TIL that Russia trained dolphins how to kill people with harpoons and then sold them to Iran after running out of dolphin food

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bAj9 TIL a NY woman spent 2 years defending herself against a $10M lawsuit by an aspiring musician who alleged that her unattractive appearance at a gig destroyed his potentially very profitable idea to form New York’s first Pink tribute band.
Yp8W7 TIL in 1862 General Grant ordered the expulsion of all the Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky
gRND TIL That the “warranty void if broken” stickers found on many electronics are not legally binding due to ‘right to repair’ legislation passed in 1975.
grEJX TIL there is a sport called Rollball a mixture of rollerblading/basketball/handball...
9Y8n6 TIL that in Oklahoma there exists a ghost town so polluted from lead mining that leftover minerals have caused the rivers to turn red. Children who went swimming in the arsenic-filled water thought they were just getting sunburnt - in reality, they were being covered in chemical burns.