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TIL dolphins have names for each other

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DPne TIL there’s a game that makes you make decisions as though you were a single parent with only $1,000 left and most people don’t get past 11 minutes into it
nndY TIL:Tycho Brahe,A 16th Century Astronomer wore a brass prosthetic nose after losing his real one in a duel over the legitimacy of a mathematical formula. He also owned a trained pet Moose who lived indoors with him. who died after it had drunk a lot of beer, and fallen down the stairs, at a party.
DGWv TIL: Dr Barry Marshal was convinced that H. pylori bacteria caused stomach ulcers, but no one believed him. Since it was illegal to test his theory on humans, he drank the bacteria himself, developed ulcers within days, treated them with antibiotics and went on to win a Nobel prize
p8xEb TIL, the largest IMAX screen is in Melbourne, Australia and is 105x75 feet.
5QR TIL that penicillin was so scarce and precious before 1944 that it was extracted from the patients’ urine to be re-used