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TIL that a female dolphin will assist in the birth of another’s baby dolphin

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aLjM TIL that a live broadcast of a panda giving birth was cancelled after it was found that the panda was faking her pregnancy for extra food
vPQ5r TIL in 1992, about 70 youth members of the Eclaireurs de France, a French scouting association, descended on the Cave of Mayrières supérieure with steel brushes to clean up graffiti, erasing two 15,000-year-old cave paintings of bison before realizing what they were.
9wpBQ TIL the USS Colorado was the only Pacific Fleet battleship not at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese surprise attack. She subsequently defended the Golden Gate Bridge, survived a kamikaze attack at Leyte Gulf and returned to San Francisco at war's end.
p88bG TIL that 39% of film industry professionals illegally download movies.
m81o TIL Black Widow females rarely eat the male after mating, the misconception comes from labs where the male is trapped in the same cage as the female.