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TIL, Dolphins in Brazil force fish towards fishermen, signal when nets should be thrown, then share the catch.

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R5bJ1 TIL that before Salman Rushdie became an author, he came up with the slogan "Naughty, but nice" for British cream cake adverts.
Oo8lg TIL an ancient city going 18 levels underground was found with thousands of ventilation shafts and could hold up to 20,000 people with schools, markets, churches, areas for livestock, and even tombs
GDEg TIL on 5 March 1945, a Gurkha soldier in the British army calmly stood up in open sight and killed a sniper pinning down his company before going on to clear 5 enemy bunkers, single-handedly, all whilst under heavy fire.
X0Jl8 TIL that 8 of the top 10 biggest stadiums by capacity in the world belong to American university football teams. Also, the second biggest stadium is in North Korea.
xPQB TIL During WW2 a Polish woman risked her life to conceal a Jewish man and his wife because the man once let her take some goods from his shop when she didn’t have enough money to pay him.