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TIL Horny Dolphins in the Caymans are Assaulting Divers

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yQ5pJ TIL that according to the Guinness Book of World Records, Marlon Brando was paid a record $3.7 million ($15 million in inflation-adjusted dollars) and 11.75% of the gross profits for 13 days’ work on Superman.
Yp9YB TIL that William Howard Taft, after falling out with his mentor Theodore Roosevelt, in 1912 became the only Republican and the only sitting POTUS to end up third in the election results
MXaV TIL A RAF pilot fell 18,000 feet without a parachute, only to suffer a sprained leg. His reaction to the fall: lit a cigarette.
epkQD TIL that in 1981 Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr, played Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X, in a TV movie about Malcolm X's assassination. Malcolm was played by Morgan Freeman in an early dramatic role.
6g7X TIL that because sounds in the minor key can make us sad & ones in the major key can make us happy, prolonged ambient noises in our surroundings [A/C motor, fridge running, dial-tones, beeps, etc] can actually have an effect on our moods.