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TIL that dolphins can commit suicide

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pXYp TIL of Moe Berg, a professional baseball player who served as a spy for the U.S. during WWII. He attended a lecture by Werner Heisenberg under the orders to shoot Heisenberg if he made any indication that the Germans were close to making an atomic bomb.
M7YB7 TIL of a murderer who was captured four years later because he had the murder scene tattooed on his breast.
ePa4 TIL that there are vaccines against addiction: drugs are being developed that eliminate the pleasurable effects of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and nicotine.
xV50w TIL Italy fined Apple and Samsung €10m and €3m respectively for releasing software updates which deliberately slowed down their phones, thus encouraging new purchases
BrNNk TIL that the current Emperor of Japan has published scientific papers in Taxonomy and has a goby species named after him