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TIL that Greg Buckingham, older brother of Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham, won a silver medal in the 1968 Olympics

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N4mb TIL that the very first phone number of the White House was “1”.
lB5B TIL a can of Coke will sink in water but Diet Coke will float
rDme TIL that in 2017, Norway will be the first country in the world to shut down FM radio and go digital instead. Norway plans to switch to DAB (which stands for ‘Digital Audio Broadcasting’), since FM is eight times more expensive.
5Vn7r TIL that bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) each have their own distinctive whistle sounds they use to identify each other. When they hear their unique sound called out, they answer back, using their personal theme song as a way to call each other by name.
P155Z TIL of the Galileo Spacecraft, which deployed a probe to penetrate Jupiter's atmosphere. The probe was going over 106,000 mph when it reached Jupiter, fast enough to travel from LA to NYC in 90 seconds. The probe transmitted data from within Jupiter for about an hour before pressure crushed it.