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TIL That dolphins give each other unique names, just like humans. They use distinctive whistles to identify each other.

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JYBP1 TIL an Airbus A330 lost both of its engines due to a ruptured fuel line. The pilot, an experienced glider pilot, successfully glided the plane for 20 minutes, saving all 306 people on board.
nm4Y TIL there is a colorblindness test that different types of color blind people see differently, depending on what animals you see in the picture.
4yxN TIL that a 2012 paper found evidence of systematic electronic vote rigging in the 2008 US General Election and 2012 Republican Primaries
grlZ9 TIL the Beatles’ record sales helped fund research that led to the development of CT scans (computerized tomography)
MXb0 TIL that in 1949 an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.