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TIL of Zabol, Iran, whose air quality is 12x more polluted than the worst town in the US, mostly due to an annual 4-month long dust storm

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5YPbn TIL of Kelly, a dolphin whose trainers gave her fish for bringing them litter/dead gulls to clean her pool. She started hiding fish under a rock in her pool, then used fish to lure gulls which she brought to her trainers to get more fish. She taught her calf the strategy, who taught more calves.
b6ea7 TIL there is a hoax/conspiracy that makes people install electrolysers on their car engine in the belief they can create infinite energy out of nowhere.
N7DDb TIL that yesterday and the British attack in 1814 were not the only times the US Capitol has been attacked. In 1954 a group of Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on the House of Representatives from the second floor visitors gallery
4k65w TIL: in 2002 amateur astronomer Bill Yeung accidentally rediscovered the 3rd stage of Apollo 12s Rocket, after NASA misscalculated its discarding burn, causing it to enter a 40 year cycle switching between sun and earth orbits.
E47P TIL the reason our toes wrinkle after being in the bath too long is to create “biologically inspired rain treads.”