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TIL in 1985 a Soviet icebreaker rescued a large pod of beluga whales trapped by pack ice, leading them to safety by playing music to lure them out through the cleared channels.

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j6QE TIL Woody Harrelsons Father was a contract Killer
AMXo TIL Plymouth spent $10,000 developing the horn of the 1968 Roadrunner so the car could sound like it’s namesake cartoon character
wo5M6 TIL Ted Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber) received an invitation in 2012 to the 50th reunion for Harvard’s 1962 undergraduate class while at ADX Florence prison. In his RSVP, he listed his occupation as ‘prisoner’.
R5bkw TIL some industries in the USA have mandatory retirement ages. Some include pilots in the airline industry at age 65(up from age 60), National Park Rangers at age 57, and Oregon Judges at age 75.
7rXr TIL the US sailor kissing the nurse in the WWII photo taken in time square to celebrate the end of the war, was on a date with another women when he grabbed the stranger and the photo was taken. The other woman still married him