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TIL Dolphins call each other by “name”.

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QN4XL TIL The K9 Thunder self-propelled howitzer developed by Samsung has a full comms system. Which means you could call your mom using the artillery while you lob Galaxy Note 7s at the enemy to blow them up
wmp8 TIL on Valentine’s day 2014, an unnamed man sabotaged a special screening of “Beijing Love Story” by booking every odd seat in the theater, preventing couples from sitting together
oRg6K TIL 5-time chess world champion Vishy Anand was India’s first GM and held the No. 1 national ranking for 37 years until September 2023, now there are 3 Indian chess players, including the reigning world chess champion, in the world top 6 and semi retired Vishy is still ranked world No. 13.
QJRW9 TIL the Zildjian Company—the world's largest producer of cymbals—was founded in 1623 by Avedis Zildjian, an Armenian alchemist in Constantinople who ended up making a cymbal instead of gold. Now based in Massachusetts, the company is still being run by the 14th generation of Zildjian's descendants.
8V94 TIL: The most remote location on Earth lies in the South Pacific and is known as “Nemo Point”. So remote in fact, the closest humans to this point would be the astronauts on the ISS that occasionally drift overhead.