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TIL dolphins typically hold their breath for 8-15 minutes while swimming and hunting.

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kJK5 TIL that Mark Twain appeared on film only once. The footage was shot by Thomas Edison in 1909, a year before Twain’s death. In addition, there exists no recording of Twain’s voice.
R7XG9 TIL in Romance languages like French and Italian, the letter Y is not phonetically named (i.e. "wy"), but is instead called 'Greek I' ("i grec"/"i grego"), as it was only ever used in Classical Latin to transliterate the letter upsilon (υ/Υ)
rk4M TIL that in 1258 the Mongols destroyed Baghdad. Survivors said that “the waters of the Tigris ran black with ink from the enormous quantities of books flung into the river and red from the blood of the scientists and philosophers killed.” The siege marked the end of the Islamic Golden Age.
LQXg0 TIL about the July 27th Finnish Holiday National Sleepyhead Day. Which dictates that the last person sleeping in the house must be woken up with water or by being thrown in a body of water.
78knr TIL that some people only feel sexually attracted to someone after developing a close or strong emotional bond with them. The term for this is demisexuality