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TIL that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s dvd was designed to look like a bootleg since the main character is a hacker. Netflix was flooded with complaints from people that thought they’d been sent pirated copies.

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NXZMJ TIL Kelly, a dolphin, was rewarded with fish by her trainers for bringing them litter and dead gulls to clean her pool. She began hiding fish under a rock in her pool and used them to lure gulls, which she then brought to her trainers to receive more fish. She even taught her calf the same strategy.
GYkZ1 TIL that the longest ship ever built was the Seawise Giant, it was 1,500 foot long, it was longer than the Empire State building is high. It had a 36 tonne anchor and it weighed 564,000 tonnes. It doesn't exist anymore and was sold for scrap to a Indian breaking yard.
EJm7 TIL The Emancipation Proclamation was enacted by Executive Order.
gNm4 TIL Abe Lincoln patented a mechanism to lift boats over shoals and obstructions, making him the only US president to hold a patent.
KYEOJ TIL of the Ford Turbine-Powered Semi-Truck called "Big Red" which was introduced at the 1964 World's Fair, found its way into private hands and was restored instead of being crushed.