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TIL In the town of Laguna, Brazil a pod of Bottlenose Dolphin cooperatively fish with fishermen. The dolphin herd mullet toward the shore and signal the fishermen to cast their nets. They do this everyday! Town records say that the dolphins and fishermen have been cooperating since 1847.

r7wx TIL in 1991 mutinous units of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard attempted to launch missile attacks against coalition forces in Saudi Arabia to trigger an armed conflict between Iran and the United States. Regular Iranian army forces rushed to the missile battery to prevent the missiles’ firing.
r57M TIL: Johannes Kepler, one of the greatest contributors to astronomy, couldn’t see the stars/planets due to small-pox he contracted as a child.
vaNB TIL that famous paintings that expressed the horrific emotion of war by painter and printmaker Francisco Goya were defaced by the modern artists the Chapman brothers who painted over the visible victims’ heads with those of clowns’ and puppies’ heads causing outrage in the art world.
AWml TIL Marlon Brando rejected his 1973 Oscar for ‘The Godfather’ reason being the poor treatment of American Indians by the film industry.This message which was conveyed during the ceremony by an American Indian girl who was booed by the crowd.
YOBr TIL the first episode of an X-Files spin-off called “The Lone Gunmen”, which aired March 4, 2001, involves a US government conspiracy to hijack an airliner, fly it into the World Trade Center, and blame it on terrorists - thereby gaining support for a new profit-making war