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TIL new research suggests that dolphins are second only to humans in smarts

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ZyJ4 TIL Lego minifigures have a hole on top of the head in case any kids got one of the heads stuck on their throat. That way they would be able to keep breathing.
16rod TIL: That Gretel Bergmann, a German Jewish athlete, was banned from the Berlin Olympics despite matching the German high jump record. Two weeks before the Olympics, she received a letter from the German sports authorities stating she was being removed from the national team for under-performance.
groX9 TIL the average minor spends about 7 hours per week with their father, but about 15 hours a week on video games.
MeJ8W TIL of Bulgaria’s role during World War II as a part of the Axis. Did not participate in the war vs the Soviet Union, reluctant to send Jews to the Holocaust, had no resistance to the incoming Red Army to “liberate” them in Sept. 1944, and ended the war with slightly more land!
8Kp8 TIL the gibberish you hear in Billy and Mandy’s end credits is actually a hidden message when played backwards