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gMExD TIL that, during their years in the White House, President Herbert Hoover & his wife, First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, were known to communicate with each other in Mandarin Chinese at times when they wished to foil eavesdroppers & keep their conversations private.
gMGg9 TIL comedian Eddie Izzard ran 32 marathons in 31 days
8egna TIL Dolphins call each other by ‘name’ using a unique whistle to identify each other. They only respond to their own names, by sounding a distinct whistle back. Researchers believe dolphins are acting like humans: when they hear their name, they answer.
0wYE5 TIL the song 'That's All Right', Elvis Presley's 1954 break out song, was a song written and originally recorded in 1947 by Arthur Crudup, a Mississippi Delta blues musician, who based the song largely around a verse in a Blind Lemon Jefferson song from 21 years earlier, called 'Black Snake Moan'
rNG6M Today I learned that the British fascist politician Arnold Spencer Leese (16 November 1878 – 18 January 1956) was initially prominent as a veterinary expert on camels.