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TIL It's illegal in Turkey to insult Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

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E1x8V TiL: During the Columbine shooting SWAT teams remained outside of the school while Klebold and Harris roamed the halls murdering students, they didn't enter until 3 hours after the two took their own lives.
gQ4b TIL that planet earth is the only planet that is not named after any god but after the word “ertha” meaning ground or soil
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.
4Xn8o TIL Mt. Everest was involuntarily named after George Everest, the surveyor-general of India. Andrew Waugh hoped to honor his predessor. When Everest found out, he hated the idea because the Sherpa people couldn't pronounce his name, and it didn't translate to Hindi. Waugh did it anyway.
5YZ8D Til about the Indian Buddhist monk who went halfway across the world to meet the Roman emperor and then travelled to Athens Greece in 19BC to burn himself alive