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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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e0K8k TIL at age 53, Roosevelt delivered a 50 page speech after getting shot in the chest, the stack of paper for his speech cushioned him against the bullet.
wL971 TIL of Princess Pingyang. At age 28, she built & led a rebel army that won the 1st victories of her father's rebellion and helped found their dynasty: the Tang. When she died in 628 AD her brother, Emperor Gaozu, went against gender norms of his day and insisted a state military funeral for her.
Y5JG TIL: The antechinus, a mouse-like animal, has so much sex that it disintegrates. They are known as semelparous, meaning that sex is a once-in-a-lifetime affair that is usually fatal.
wZEJ TIL it’s possible to replace a lost thumb with a toe, and that the first successful toe-to-thumb transplant was performed in 1964, on a rhesus monkey (first human was 1972)
epW14 TIL that crosswalks are called zebra crossings in the U.K.