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TIL: PETA kills 97% of the animals it takes in, that are healthy and adoptable.

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5V1o8 TIL bottlenose dolphins call out their loved ones by specific names when they become separated. They are the only species apart from humans that are known to do this.
axD0 TIL an animated movie about Vincent van Gogh is slated to be the first fully-painted feature-length film in the world (connecting 56,800 stop-motion paintings)
nWWmb TIL that in 1934, a German man named Gerhard Zucker attempted to deliver mail by loading it onto a rocket and firing it at a Scottish island. Both times he attempted this, the rocket exploded and much of the mail was destroyed.
Wx7o TIL a French man on trial for witchcraft in the 1500’s decided to troll his accusers before being sentenced to death and declared that not only was he indeed a sorcerer, but there were more than 300,000 others in France alone, setting off mass hysteria across the country
4Xg06 TIL that real parmigiano reggiano cheese is only made in a very small area of northern Italy and "parmesan cheese" is counterfiet. Also, Italy has a black market for cheese.