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TIL Kathy, the dolphin that played Flipper, commited suicide in retirement .

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W7L6N TIL Hans Christian Anderson was huge fanboy of Charles Dickens & annoyed the hell out of him by overstaying his welcome as a guest
e9L4 TIL the luxury automobile division of the Rolls Royce brand is actually owned by BMW. The actual Rolls Royce company operates exclusively in the defense sector, building planes, ship engines, and nuclear submarines.
oBZ8r TIL Martin Luther King Jr. said he experienced far more hatred in Chicago than he ever did in Alabama or Mississippi. King took part of the Chicago Housing Movement in August 1966 with thousands of local whites jeering, throwing bricks, and displaying Confederate and Nazi signs all over the city.
v64B TIL that the richest man in the world at the time, John Jacob Astor IV, was present on the Titanic when it sank in 1912. When his body was recovered, it was found to contain gold, diamonds and $2500 cash (nearly $61,000 in today’s money)
E1K57 TIL of the Schulze-Boysens, a married couple who were members of the German high society. They were also anti-Nazi activists who formed a resistance group known as the Red Orchestra. They were caught and executed in 1942 but the Red Orchestra continued throughout the war as an espionage network.