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TIL that in 1970 authorities in Florence, Oregon decided to blow up a dead whale to stop its slow decomposition, but used 20 cases of dynamite instead of 20 sticks (video in link)

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9wQWX TIL of Finnish man Lauri Allan Törni (born 1919) who fought in WW2 as both a Finnish and German soldier, and in the Vietnam War as a US Special Forces soldier. He was killed in a helicopter crash in 1965.
yQpdJ Today I learned that Chic Fil A supplier Simmon Foods claimed in court its chicken packers are not employees because they're "not willingly working" and "worked without promise or expectation of pay"
v6L4 TIL Malcolm X, then Malcolm Little, was elected class president by an almost all-white class in middle school.
JBaB TIL Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was the first person to announce the death of Osama bin laden via Twitter.
PDPg TIL that chimpanzees fight wars like humans. Happend 1974-1978 in Gombe National Park. It is called the “Four Year War of Gombe”. Two parties fought, and one party won the war by extermination of the other. Jane Goodall observed this war and was frightend by the brutality.