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TIL orcas are a part of the dolphin family

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Aa0x TIL Starcraft was the first computer game to be played in space.
dDAN9 TIL John Brabazon Ponsonby was arrested during the French Revolution for being an aristocrate but was let free because he was too handsome to hang.
gJpX TIL the heiress to the In-N-Out fortune, Lynsi Snyder, has deliberately kept herself out of the public eye due to kidnapping attempts; one of which occurred while she was still a teenager in highschool.
0wJYL TIL of Ingeborg Rapoport. In 2015, 74 years after being denied her Ph.D by the Nazis for being Jewish, she successfully defended her dissertation and received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg at the age of 102, making her the oldest person ever to receive one.
D1pnv TIL that Before the Civil War, uniforms were custom-sewn. Such a massive number of people had to be outfitted that uniforms needed to be mass produced. Soldiers were put into subtypes: large, medium, and small—classifications that eventually found their way to civilian clothing.