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Today I Learned 'Killer whales' are not actually a whale, rather they are the largest species of dolphin

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JYgM1 TIL After the deaths of his brothers JFK and RFK, Ted Kennedy became the sole patriarch to the Kennedy family. On the same day his 12-year-old son was having his cancer-laden leg amputated, Ted had to rush down to lead his niece, RFK’s daughter, down the aisle at her wedding.
9Jv7 TIL that the phrase “Luck of the Irish” originally ‘carried with it a certain tone of derision, as if to say, only by sheer luck, as opposed to brains, could these fools succeed.’
GYwE4 TIL May 28th is International Masturbation day to mark the day a sex positive Surgeon General was fired.
MeDPm TIL Scientists found that deleting a certain gene in mice can make them smarter by unlocking a mysterious region of the brain considered to be relatively inflexible. It is called the 'Homer Simpson Gene.'
Br4mD TIL the movie "Deep Throat" was made for $47,500, but made at least $30 million, and according to some estimates, it might have brought in as much as $600 million of earnings.