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TIL Germany only fully paid off their WWI reparations 2 years ago.

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wLgQM TIL of Margaret Howe Lovett’s sexual relations with a Dolphin during a NASA funded communications study. Lovett manually relieved Peter of urges to keep him focused. LSD was also used to aid the dolphins in speaking. Peter learned 2 words but killed himself when the study ended. ‬
RxB1 TIL that sea otters have the densest fur of the animal kingdom with about 1,000,000 hairs per square inch.
7vEp TIL that the invention of fire made humans smarter because it made chewing and digesting food easier which lead to extra calories going towards nourishing their growing brains
5V1W8 TIL that Elon already once owned X.com back in 1999 - back then, one of the first federally insured online banks
5VOA9 TIL Orville Wright lived to see jets and the first supersonic flight