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TIL that dolphins can commit suicide
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TIL that the French have been building a castle for 20 years using medieval techniques and building material, anyone can participate in the project, which will be completed in 2023.
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TIL USSR’s first long-range bomber, the Tu-4, was such an exact copy of a confiscated American B-29 that it even featured a repair patch on its fuselage where the original plane had been damaged.
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TIL that the heart transplanted into patient number one, was broken.
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TIL In 1505 the world's first portable pocket-sized clock was invented. It acquired the name watch from sailors who used it to replace the hourglasses they used to time their 4-hour shifts of duty, or watches.
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TIL Sorrell Booke ("Boss Hogg") had degrees from Yale and Columbia, spoke 5 languages, was an intelligence officer in the Korean War, once conducted the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, wore a fat suit to play Boss Hogg