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TIL that every Purple Heart medal awarded up to date was originally made during WWII in anticipation of the casualties that US troops would suffer in Japan

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ne1aW TIL in 2006, Sharon Tendler became the first human to officially marry a dolphin. The bottlenose dolphin named Cindy had courted her for 15 years at the Eilat Reef resort town in southern Israel. Tendler told the media, “I am the happiest girl on earth,” and she added, “I am not a pervert.”
E1VvX TIL Marina Abramović performed The Artist Is Present, a 736-hour and 30-minute static, silent piece, in which she sat immobile in the museum's atrium across from 1,545 sitters, including Klaus Biesenbach, James Franco, Lou Reed, Alan Rickman, Jemima Kirke, Jennifer Carpenter and Björk
jN7lM TIL that eggs boiled in young boys urine is a traditional dish in a certain part of China.
wR07 TIL On this day in history Ozzy Osborne bought 3 rounds of drinks for everyone on a plane returning from spring break and sang “Crazy Train” over the PA system.
0w67N TIL There is no "Missing Link" in Human Evolution. The term "missing link" has fallen out of favor with biologists because it implies the evolutionary process is a linear phenomenon and that forms originate consecutively in a chain. Instead, the term Last Common Ancestor is preferred.