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TIL that “In 2013, India officially recognized dolphins as non-human persons”

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XE0g8 TIL that the Polish medal for couples who have made it to 50 years of marriage has a higher rank than the medal for deployment to Afghanistan
6EdRJ TIL that in 1932 Britain turned down a request from the then impoverished Saudis for a loan of £500,000 to search for oil in the kingdom
R67j TIL: Hebrew became extinct as a spoken native language around 200 CE. It was revived in Paris on 13 October 1881 when a man called Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and his friends agreed to exclusively speak Hebrew in their conversations.
gMkrb TIL Natalia Molchanova, the "world's most decorated free diver" ever, disappeared while diving off the coast of Spain and has never been found.
D1EMD TIL Spanish-Filipino Marcelo A. Palmero the 13th Prime Minister of Spain became Prime Minister in 1897 during the Philippine Revolution and became Prime Minister two more times after Spain lost the Philippines as a colony.