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TIL Whales play around and give rides to dolphins in the wild.

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xVnnb TIL "Green Screening" is known as a "Chroma Key" in the television and movie industry since any distinct and uniform color can be used--not just green--as long as the foreground is visually different from the background.
Yp91d TIL a study of peer-reviewed journals in the field of genomics found that 19.6% of studies contained data errors created by Microsoft Excel. That's because some genes with names like SEPT2 (Septin 2) were automatically being converted by Excel into dates.
yV5pp TIL that “Goodwill Industries, a tax-exempt non-profit that generates more than $5 billion in annual revenue and pays its executives six-figure and seven-figure salaries, pays some of its workers as little as $0.22 per hour. Why? Because they are disabled.”
rprx TIL There is a chemotherapy drug that erases your finger prints as a side effect
D8DJ TIL the Ouija board got its name after being asked what is should be called. When asked what it meant, the board allegedly replied, “good luck.”