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TIL dolphins don’t just leave their dead behind. Mothers have been seen carrying their lifeless calves for days, even as they decompose, showing a terrible sense of loss.

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9xwX TIL: In prehistoric New Zealand, Eagles with 3m wingspans preyed on humans.
E5po TIL that ABC aired Saving Private Ryan on Veteran’s day, unedited, every year starting in 2001. The practice ended in 2004 (the year of Nipplegate), when nearly 30% of ABC affiliate stations declined the broadcast, even after The Walt Disney Company offered to pay all FCC fines for language.
6A1J TIL that the Dominican Republic offered to take 100,000 Jews in 1938, only 645 made it, and each one was given 80 acres of land, 10 cows, a mule, and a horse.
6EM7 TIL that during a hurricane and its aftermath the two most purchased items in Wal-Mart are beer and strawberry pop tarts.
E19LP TIL that New Mexico was not named after the nation of Mexico, but rather after the Aztec Valley of Mexico...in 1563, more than 250 years before Mexico became a nation.