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TIL about ShipGoo001, novel bacteria and archaea, accidentally found in the rudder housing of a research ship.

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1agD TIL 80 year old Sameul Whittemore was shot in the face and bayoneted 13 times after killing three British soldiers. He recovered and lived another 18 years.
e0pXg TIL in the 1960's NASA funded a study attempting to get dolphins to speak English, wherein a woman lived in a partially flooded house with a dolphin, they took LSD together, and she gave the dolphin handjobs. Ultimately, they discovered it was not possible to teach a dolphin to speak English.
AdWg TIL that when Robin Williams was asked to take a seat during his audition for the role of Mork, he immediately sat on his head on the chair. He was cast on the spot.
epdgb TIL New Mexico has an official state cowboy song; "Under New Mexico Skies"
78wGM TIL that more than half of all light mail in Denmark is delivered by bike. Due to the general city infrastructure, bikes are by far the easiest and quickest way to deliver letters in Denmark