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TIL every May in Hamburg tugboats perform choreographed tugboat ballet to the tunes of waltz

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PY68n TIL that an distraught Elephant in India went on a retaliatory rampage, killing and even consuming multiple people after her calf was killed by villagers.
e01OD TIL despite being 200 miles away from the ocean, a beluga whale skeleton was found in Charlotte, Vermont, USA and is the result of an ice sheet pushing down the North American continent.
y9Ow TIL: The word “weird” used to mean “having the power to control fate”, deriving from the proto-norse “wyrd” which roughly means “fate”.
OoeOY TIL Linus Pauling, a Nobel prize winner in chemistry, was a eugenicist. He urged that human carriers of defective genes have a compulsory visible mark - such as forehead tattoos - to discourage potential mates with the same defect, having kids together.
ADMga TIL Nintendo created a video game based on the Popeye comic strip, but could not acquire licensing rights for the characters. Rather than scrap the work that was done, it released with a new cast - a plumber, his girlfriend, and a gorilla - and was renamed "Donkey Kong" after the game's antagonist.