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TIL in the 1960's NASA funded a study attempting to get dolphins to speak English, wherein a woman lived in a partially flooded house with a dolphin, they took LSD together, and she gave the dolphin handjobs. Ultimately, they discovered it was not possible to teach a dolphin to speak English.

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DQK4J TIL the "Mother of Women's Judo" was a Jewish-American woman born in Brooklyn, New York. After being barred from competition in the states for being a woman and having to return medals she won posing as a man, she became the first woman to train with men at Kodokan- the Worldwide Judo Headquarters.
RYkj TIL Mosquitos ‘are the only creature responsible for the deaths of more humans than humans themselves’
KYmyB TIL that the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora was the most powerful eruption in human history, 4 to 10 times more powerful than the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.
yVGMJ TIL that during a trip to Moscow, then Vice-President Richard Nixon was exposed to high levels of ionising radiation while staying at the US ambassador's residence. After Secret Service agents loudly complained the next day, radiation levels dropped.
oBxG8 TIL that Wendigo psychosis is a disorder, historically reported among native peoples in Canada, in which a person feels the need to consume human flesh. In 1878, a man suffering from it named Swift Runner killed and ate his family despite food supplies being available at a nearby outpost.