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TIL that NASA funded a project to teach dolphins how to talk which ended in interspecies handjobs and dolphins on LSD

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5Yg5r TIL that when the lone male in a group of Blue Head Wrasse fish dies, the largest female transforms into a male, and resumes the male’s duties.
765Z TIL that in 1970 Coco Chanel was worth was $19 billion (equivalent to $118 billion in 2015) - Bill Gates is currently worth $78.3 billion
mxrYo TIL prior to 2003, if you changed wireless carriers, you would have to get a new phone number, since carriers were not required by law to transfer your phone number
5Vwrn TIL of Jan Palach, He was a student at Prague University in January 1969 when he self-immolated in protest of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. 26 other self-immolations were made and Jan became an icon of Czech freedom and eventually a national hero after the Velvet Revolution
v8XR TIL that the French spoken words in the Beyonce song “Partition” are almost word-for-word taken from a conversation in the French dub version of the film “The Big Lebowski”