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TIL dolphins have personal names: unique whistles to which they respond, even when sound is synthesized.

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ae4o TIL that Ohio has voted for the winning president in over 92% of the elections the state has voted in.
ZnZa TIL the state of Kuwait is banned from the Olympics due to government legislation that permits the state to interfere in elections of sporting organizations. As a result, Kuwaiti athletes compete as independent athletes under the Olympic Flag instead of their own flag.
P1YPJ TIL that the blow-fly of East and Central Africa, commonly infects humans by laying its eggs on wet clothes, left out to dry and a good way to prevent the transfer to a person's skin, is to iron all clothes including underwear, which kills the eggs/larvae.
MeZQa TIL the re-introduction of extinct Red Kite to England in the 1990s was so successful that the population has grown to the point that it's now so large that it can no longer be counted accurately. English Kites are even being used to reintroduce the bird to other European countries.
KOd46 TIL The British eat over 3,500,000,000 sandwiches every year