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TIL that Killer Whales are not actually whales. They're dolphins.

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m1VPp TIL Monty Python reunited for Monty Python Live (Mostly) (2014) because they suddenly owed £800,000 pounds to Mark Forstater over Spamalot royalties. The ten shows were their first live ensemble performances in 34 years.
MeeP8 TIL 9th November is known as the ‘day of fate’ in German history- on the same day, Robert Blum was executed in 1848, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated in 1918, Hitler’s Munich Putsch occurred in 1923, Kristallnacht occurred in 1938, and the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.
W7pLY TIL that hippos have red sweat that is frequently mistaken for blood
wLgQM TIL of Margaret Howe Lovett’s sexual relations with a Dolphin during a NASA funded communications study. Lovett manually relieved Peter of urges to keep him focused. LSD was also used to aid the dolphins in speaking. Peter learned 2 words but killed himself when the study ended. ‬
eZ6 TIL that Christopher Robin, on whom the Winnie the Pooh character is based, grew to resent his father for associating him with the stories.