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TIL there was a Republic of Yucatán ... twice!

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DyLg TIL that comic book characters come back to life after dying so often that they are aware of the likely resurrections. Professor X said “in mutant heaven there are no pearly gates, but instead revolving doors.” After one X-Man died, his daughter refused to mourn him because he’d be alive again.
JZjk TIL Killer Whales are able to learn to speak Dolphin. When killer whales were socialized with bottlenose dolphins at a water facility, they changed the types of sounds they made to resemble those of their social partners
WB9d TIL that most pictures we see of “old” Einstein are many years after he published anything groundbreaking as his most noteworthy achievements are from his miracle year of 1905, when he was 26
8XgG TIL that AOL still has 2.4 Million paying monthly subscribers. They made AOL $196 Million last quarter which accounts for one third of their overall revenues.
VBgaZ TIL honeybees can understand the concept of zero.