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TIL the US military uses dolphins to find and identify underwater mines because they are better at it than humans.

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vO17 TIL George Lucas wanted to build a movie studio on his San Francisco area property but was denied permission by his posh neighbors. After 25 years of litigation, he has now decided to build low-income housing on the property.
9Z6m TIL there was a 50,000 word novel written in 1939 that doesn’t use a single letter “E”
Oo44L TIL: Scientists have thought the melting and forming of ice sheets around the world changed the distribution of mass around the planet enough to shift the polar axis. Since 2000, the Earth's axis has jumped eastward by about 7 inches a year”
GyPg TIL 52 years ago today the first television signal transmitted via satellite was sent by MIT from CA to MA.
W8e8 TIL that African American slaves used songs to deliver encoded messages of underground railroads indicating instructions of where to go.