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TIL that Cambridge Analytica still fully exists, operates every day, and simply changed their name to Emerdata.

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wLy6o TIL in the 60s, NASA gave dolphins LSD in an attempt to get them to speak. A female researcher lived in a partially submerged house with one of these dolphins. It would become sexually aroused and attack her, so she started giving it handjobs
O80X TIL there are 11 surviving people born in the 1800s.
eDg4 TIL a Buddhist monk who burned himself in front of the Cambodian embassy named Thich Quang Duc, when re-cremated after burning, his heart remained in tact.
A4Pn TIL the bald eagle hasn’t been considered an endangered species since 2007.
M5Dm TIL Spielberg suggested Ron Howard (the director of Apollo 13) to use KC-135 - an airplane that could create 23 seconds of weightlessness for filming certain scenes. Those scenes were filmed in bursts of 25 seconds after flying 612 parabolas, adding up to a total of 3hrs 54mins of weightlessness.