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TIL that the dolphin that played Flipper on the TV show committed suicide by refusing to breathe

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yX9V TIL that there are 2 McDonalds in the US that serve pizza.
Oo6we TIL - In 1990, BBC’s Tomorrow’s World featured a white, sticky coating with astonishing heat-resisting properties, Starlite. In a demonstration, a raw egg painted with the stuff stayed raw in the heat of a blowtorch. The inventor died in 2011, having failed to strike a deal with any manufacturer.
GAn61 TIL a minority of the world's languages are "ergative"—the object of a transitive verb & the subject of an intransitive verb are treated the same. For example: whereas in English we'd say "SHE likes HER" & "SHE walks"; in Basque (spoken in N. Spain/SW France), it'd be "SHE likes HER" but "HER walks"
jLPM TIL that Metallica was the first band to play on all 7 continents.
ANALa TIL that the cute little male Mardo engages in such frenzied mating, that it dies shortly after due to stress