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TIL that the concurrent Navy training and testing could potentially kill hundreds of whales and dolphins and disable thousands over the next five years.

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9P76 TIL Police dogs in most countries are sworn in as actual officers with badge numbers.
XEbKr TIL Nicolas Cage’s earliest childhood memory is from when he was three years old and lying on a bed with Italian nuns, who made him drink Sambuca and fed him a stew made of fox meat.
oByOr TIL that legendary crime fighter Eliot Ness was promised by Al Capone that $2,000 would be on his desk every Monday morning if he turned a blind eye to his gang's bootlegging activities ( $33,000 a week in 2018 adjusting for inflation). Ness refused the bribe, was penniless when he died in 1957.
XlRj TIL that human races do not exist taxonomically. A fixation index of 0.25 is required for a species to have various sub-species. Humans have a fixation index of 0.11, less than half of the required criteria of genetic diversity needed for the existence of sub-species or races.
vP667 TIL that Castro traveled to the US just a few months after the 1959 Revolution, visiting Houston, Washington DC, and New York.