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TIL Valium was given to whales at SeaWorld to keep them calm, documents that a veterinarian at SeaWorld gave diazepam (Valium) to at least three orcas in 2006 in order to control their behavior.

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LQdwp TIL that no (verified) person born on February 29th has ever reached their golden birthday.
VnMm TIL that in ‘Tropic Thunder,’ Robert Downey Jr.’s character says “I don’t drop character 'til I’ve done the DVD commentary.” When doing the actual DVD commentary, RDJ does it in the characters Lincoln Osiris and Kirk Lazarus.
KYmRQ TIL that the posts with 4 holes at the top that you threw a ball into, on elementary school playgrounds, actually had a point: Funnel ball.
j6VrN TIL Picher, Oklahoma is the Most Polluted Place in America From Mining and Industry
oRgn7 TIL Dr. Rebecca Crumpler was the first black woman to earn an MD in the US in 1864. Despite authoring the first medical textbook by a black physician, she did not gain recognition until mid-20th century.