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TIL that killer whales have cooperated with human whalers in the past.

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MjaB TIL in 2000, due to a Disney DVD “duplication error”, the Toy Story Ultimate Toy Box Set shipped to Costco Stores contained scenes from the R-rated romantic comedy movie “High Fidelity” inserted at a random point during Toy Story 2, in which the word “fuck” is used twice by John Cusack.
6W9Y TIL the University of Alabama has faculty-owned slaves buried on campus.
xXZw TIL Lars von Trier’s creativity is the result of his mother purposely having an affair with her former employer in order to give him “artistic genes”. She told him on her deathbed.
NXrp1 TIL that Barbara and Kenneth Handler, the children whom Barbie and Ken were named after, never played with their namesake dolls in their lives, as neither them nor their children ever liked them
XmRD TIL that a woman was trapped in her body for 6 years before anyone noticed. In 1966 someone saw that she was trying to smile after hearing a dirty joke. Julia Tavalaro learned to communicate by blinking, became an author, and died at age 68, 37 years after the stroke.