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TIL Dolphin teens get high by chewing pufferfish and even pass it around. They then swim to the surface and zone out to their own reflections.

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l7lPr TIL the funk band War started out as a backing band for Football Hall of Famer Deacon Jones.
6x4w TIL that English composer Jeremiah Clarke couldn’t decide whether to commit suicide by hanging or drowning himself, so he flipped a coin. The coin landed on its edge in the mud, so he went home and shot himself instead.
x6W5 TIL that the Dallas Cowboys lost the rights to cowboys.com due to non payment and it is now a gay dating site.
j6P9N TIL Robert Fripp, Guitarist and Founder of King Crimson composed the Windows Vista startup sound
7rQNM TIL the record for the greatest 24-hour temperature change ever recorded on earth occurred in 1972 in Loma, Montana when the temperature rose from -54°F (-47°C) on January 14th to 49°F (9°C) on January 15th: an astonishing 103°F (56°C) rise