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TIL at a Marine Mammal Institute, dolphins were trained to turn in garbage that fell into the tanks in exchange for fish. One dolphin was smart enough to hide pieces of paper under a rock, tearing off smaller pieces from the paper in order to get more fish out of it.

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91nM TIL A man in China was dumped by his girlfriend because he was too poor to take her to the movies. Six years later, he booked four IMAX theaters in Beijing for one night and gave away all the tickets for free to prove how rich he is now and to show her what she was missing.
ydMl TIL that M. Night Shyamalan was writing the fourth Indiana Jones movie. He left, claiming it was difficult to get Steven Spielberg and George Lucas to focus.
6EWxZ TIL that Paul Lieberstein, AKA Toby from The Office, was a writer for the first five seasons of King of the Hill.
MeBWK TIL former US president Gerald Ford, his wife Betty Ford, and politician Henry Kissinger all made guest appearances as themselves in a 1983 episode of night-time soap Dynasty
JY7Bm TIL Tomochichi, renown Native American Chief and friend to the english was given a monument and burial site at the center of Savannah, GA's Wright Square, only to have it destroyed and replaced with a monument to a railroad man in 1883.