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Russia sent trained dolphins to war in Syria.

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Xel8 TIL Russia teaches a 6 continent model, considering Europe and Asia as one.
7jbp TIL aged five, Phil Collins entered a talent content at Butlins singing The Ballad of Davy Crockett, stopping the orchestra halfway through to tell them they were playing in the wrong key
mxMEO TIL that Louis Armstrong always wore a Star of David as an homage to a Jewish family that took him in when he was young and gave him his first horn
dKaj TIL the Canadian government has banned members of the Westboro Baptist Church from entering the country
698A7 TIL the notion that separate New York City borough accents exist is false. Linguists are in agreement that there is no empirical evidence of systematic differences in NYC English across NYC’s five boroughs. There is no purely geographical variation in speech patterns that occur within NYC.