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TIL Dolphins give eachother names and even respond to them.

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lQjV TIL that there was once a real-life replica of The Simpsons house, made for a contest. It was re-created from footage of more than 100 episodes of the show to get every facet of the house right. The winner, however, chose to accept a cash prize instead.
5YQ9B TIL of the "Green Book" which was a travel guide for black people published up until 1966 that gave locations on safe stops and routes for travel in the U.S.
4RZw TIL that cheap pink White Zinfandel aka “jug wine” was invented by mistake. Instead of dumping it, Sutter Home bottled it, marketed it and it’s been the 3rd top selling wine in the U.S. for more than 30 years, making the owners fabulously wealthy and angering wine snobs.
Dd4P TIL Teachers in NYC are so difficult to fire that when deemed unfit to teach they are often placed in rubber rooms where they serve the same hours they had working in schools.
1axGO TIL Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Mario and Zelda, came up with the idea of Pikmin when gardening. He saw a line of ants carrying leaves towards their nest and wondered what the scene would look like if they were tiny people instead.