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TIL Captive male orcas have a 80-90% rate of dorsal fin collapse, the rate for wild orcas has been estimated at <1-23%. The main causes put forward are the change in diet, the lack of activity, and excessive time at the surface. Excessive surface time also causes sunburns and cataracts.

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4mA5 TIL that the Pink Panthers, a group of international jewel thieves, have committed 341 robberies in 35 different countries, and successfully gotten away with nearly half a billion dollars worth of jewels.
jM6E TIL shortly before each terrorist who was involved in the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes was assassinated by Mossad, his family would receive flowers and a condolence card that read, “A reminder we do not forget or forgive.”
D8re TIL of the smoke filled room experiment, which shows that even if there’s smoke filling a room people will stay for as long as 20 minutes if no one else is reacting to it. Otherwise they’d leave quickly.
x6N4o TIL Julius Evola, an Italian philosopher, would regularly walk around the city during bombing raids to "ponder his destiny". During one such aerial bombardment in 1945, a shell fragment damaged his spinal cord and he became paralysed from the waist down, remaining so for the rest of his life.
nBXG TIL In 1997, there was a contest to win a fully-furnished exact replica of the “Simpsons” house in Clark County, Nev. The winner could choose to either stay in the home or trade it for $75,000. The winner took the money. The house was ultimately stripped of its “Simpsons” décor before being sold.