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TIL Dolphins deliberately ‘get high’ on puffer fish nerve toxins, chewing and passing them around.

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pK5N TIL that after watching Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin sent Jack Gleeson (Joffery’s actor) a personal letter saying “Congratulations on your marvellous performance, everyone hates you.”
rRdad TIL of Qian Xuesen, a Chinese rocket scientist and mathematician, who worked on the Manhattan Project during WW2 to help America build the world's first atomic bomb. During the Cold War, he was accused of being a communist and fled America to China, where he helped China build its first atomic bomb.
bQbZ TIL Australia & New Zealand introduced long service leave in the 1860s, a 13 week vacation for every 10 years of work, to allow time to sail back to England, have a 3 week holiday, and sail back.
Brw6b TIL that new wave group Blondie had their first hit in Australia in 1977 after music program Countdown played the music video for In the Flesh, supposedly by mistake
NOQ8 TIL that actor Christopher McDonald, the actor who played Shooter McGavin in Happy Gilmore, says he never pays for a round of golf because of his widespread fame from that role.