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TIL Dolphins have two stomachs.

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MB00 TIL of “Unsinkable” Sam, a sailor during WWII who survived the sinking of the Bismarck, switched sides to the Allies, then survived the sinking of both the HMS Cossack and the HMS Ark Royal. Unsinkable Sam is also a cat.
4VLw TIL After two wars in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, the M1 Abrams tank has suffered only one combat death.
0wmER TIL Christopher Columbus used a book of astronomical tables when the next lunar eclipse would take place and use it to warn the indigenous people in Jamaica to treat his crew better or else the moon would rise red. Lunar eclipse happened, and they pleaded Columbus to restore the moon.
YpW8W TIL that the word "amok", as in "to run amok", is a reference to a Malay word meaning "to make a furious or desperate charge." It entered English usage after Europeah visitors to Southeast Asia reported it a as a psychiatric disorder (and it is still listed as one in the DSM IV).
BgM1d TIL that the odds against Buster Douglas were 42:1, on the night in February 1990 that he KO’ed Mike Tyson.