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TIL that in 1964 a woman lived in a waterproofed house with a dolphin called Peter, tried to teach him English and had a sexual relationship with him NSFW

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DQmve TIL that a wild emu nicknamed Fluffy regularly runs with the participants at what is reputedly Australia’s hardest ParkRun.
KOm8E TIL that Russian gold-medal winning blind Paralympians are given cars for their effort, and some of them drive on a daily basis
a1J9 TIL the HIV/AIDS conspiracy theory in which the disease was manufactured by the US government, was actually a KGB misinformation campaign, Operation INFEKTION
R5ko7 TIL Robert plant was only 22 when Led Zeppelin recorded the song Stairway to Heaven
PYeXn TIL Nietzsche criticised antisemitism and German nationalism, believing in his final years he was "a pure-blooded Polish nobleman, without a single drop of bad blood, certainly not German". He claimed he and Germany were great thanks to "Polish blood in their veins" and wanted "all antisemites shot"