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TIL Native Americans took over Alcatraz Island for 19 months in the 60s/70s.

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bNd9 TIL dolphins have been recorded having conversations in which they alter volume and frequency of pulsed clicks to form individual “words” which they string together into sentences in much the same way that humans speak. Each dolphin would listen to a sentence without interruption before replying.
wolOE TIL that Ben Affleck's first directorial effort was a 1993 short film titled "I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney"
negk9 TIL In Mainland China and Malaysia, movies have restrictions that villains should be punished in the end.
p8NbO TIL there is a podcast episode of Futurama from 2017 with the original cast and writers
lxYB TIL the almost final words of writer Roald Dahl, were “You know, I’m not frightened. It’s just that I will miss you all so much” to his family. After appearing to fall unconscious the nurse then injected him with morphine to ease his passing and he said his actual last words: “Ow, fuck!”