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TIL that a bottlenose dolphin could swim up to 22 miles per hour(35 kilometers per hour) and when they're asleep, they keep half of its brain awake in order to keep breathing

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lorAK TIL In 2011 it came to light a forger had fooled one of NYC's most elite art galleries into selling $80M worth of fake art despite the forger misspelling Jackson Pollock in the signature (dropped the "c", whoops!) and using paint that was not available at the time the painting was allegedly painted
VMDGp TIL the oldest existing analog computer was created around 100 BC and recovered from a shipwreck in 1901 after spending almost 2000 years underwater.
R5rX7 TIL that in 1989 after being threatened by the Crips gang a US Army Ranger called in 12 other Rangers to help him and the result was a 30 minute gun battle with hundreds of rounds fired.
WbbL TIL it’s illegal to “pursue, shoot, shoot at, poison, wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, molest or disturb” a bald eagle in the US
ADl6w TIL that one of Russia's deadliest contract killers, Alexander Solonik, was credited with 43 kills. He was killed in 1997 by another contract killer sent by the mob he was working for.