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TIL dolphins will play with whales by lying on the whale’s head while the whale slowly raises it above the water’s surface

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16QyW TIL In 1976 author Marian Engle wrote a book called "Bear". Dubbed one of the most controversial books in Canadian history this book centers around a women who enters a sexual relationship with a Bear.
nWn6P TIL that JRR Tolkien never said Hobbits have unusually large feet. This notion was introduced by illustrators and later copied into other depictions.
R7on8 TIL the Tesseract, or Hypercube, isn't the only 4 dimensional shape, and there are 5 others recognized as Regular, including one with 600 corners.
KOD8w [TIL] There are enough words in the English dictionary that every 3m square on Earth can get its own unique three word address and Mongolia is now using this for their postal addresses
eayk TIL that a Chinese law promulgated in 1981 requires that every citizen over the age of 11 plant at least one tree per year.