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TIL in June 2021, Boryana Straubel, wife of Tesla co-founder J.B. Straubel, was struck and killed while riding a bicycle on a highway shoulder in Nevada. She managed a family foundation that focused on environmental sustainability. The driver of the car that hit her was unlicensed.

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wodb8 TIL that the creator of Kwanzaa kidnapped and tortured 2 black women by whipping them with an electrical cord, placing a hot soldering iron in their mouths, and putting one of their toes in a vise.
a8nDb TIL of the Wild Dolphin Project & of its founder Dr Denise Herzing. For the last 35 years they have been studying & learning how to communicate with wild dolphins. She describes in one of her books how a group of dolphins sensed the death of a passenger on her boat & escorted the boat back to shore.
7r76M TIL about ruby chocolate, a "fourth type" of chocolate (in addition to dark, milk, and white) introduced in 2017. It has a slightly sweet and sour flavor.
XDM6 TIL cats show you their butthole as a way of telling you they’re comfortable with you.
g578 TIL that this man “had three legs, four feet, sixteen toes and two sets of functioning male genitals”. He worked for the circus and lived the the age of 78!