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TIL Dolphins call each other by “name”.

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wL6Z1 TIL, Jon Voight who is Ben Stiller's fictional dad (aka Derek Zoolander's dad) is also the IRL father of Angelina Jolie. He also played the role of Lara Croft's dad, while Jolie played Lara. Voight is still alive even though Jerry Stiller passed recently.
P1YGJ TIL Amber Heard’s London Fields film is the second worst performing US box office opening for a wide release film of all time.
0Dkp TIL that the anecdote that says a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water if thrown in, but sit in a pot of water as it is slowly brought to a boil has been shown to be untrue by modern biologists.
1mJd TIL That George Orwell’s 1984 was banned and burned in the U.S.S.R. under Stalin’s rule for being anti-communism. Meanwhile in the USA, in 1981, it was challenged in Jackson County, Florida for being pro-communism.
jNwvR TIL that while modern child-proof lids were invented in 1967, archaeologists discovered a container nearly 20 years later that was opened using a similar twist-off method. The vessel was found in the Mayan ruins of Río Azul in Guatemala and dated back to 500 BCE. It contained chocolate.