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TIL that in 2008, a stamp was issued by the country of Albania to honor John Belushi, who was of Albanian heritage

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p8O7p TIL Hitler was an avid reader, having read at least 6,000 books, and would quote Shakespeare throughout WWII. He ranked Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gulliver's Travels, Don Quixote, and Robinson Crusoe as the great works of world literature.
RW7j TIL Dolphin teens get high by chewing pufferfish and even pass it around. They then swim to the surface and zone out to their own reflections.
E1myP TIL about Sarah Rector, who became rich at 12 due to an oil strike on her land. The Oklahoma Legislature declared her to be a white person in 1913, so that she would be allowed to travel in first-class accommodations on the railroad, as befitted her position.
W7dQB TIL the shade of semen naturally changes over the course of a man's life.
OGEXR TIL about "Cemetery Island" (old Newburg Cemetery) in Kentucky Lake, a strip of land that's only visible when the water is low. It has a grave marker from 1907 that's regularly toppled by boats when the water is high in the summer and has to be propped back up in the winter.