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TIL that Dolphins can stay awake for 15 days by sleeping with one half of brain

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b94b9 TIL that a rat laughs when you tickle them
R5dXl TIL The prince of Liechtenstein threatened to pack up and leave his country and live in Austria if voters had rejected proposals that would have extended his powers in a 2003 referendum.
K1GB TIL that we have Labor Day as a result culminating from The Pullman Strike. During The Pullman Strike the US government sent the US military and federal marshalls to break it up, they subsequently opened fire on citizens and killed over 30 people.
M7M9V TIL Temmler Werke (company that supplied Nazi meth) was still making Pervitin and selling it to the East German army until 1988.
ADwvo TIL Joseph Kennedy threatened to sue ABC for revealing that his son John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer-prize winning book Profiles in Courage was ghost-written. They retracted the story. The book wasn't considered for the prize until Joe convinced a boardmember to persuade others to vote for it.