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

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WbYB TIL It has been argued that the “rib” in the story of Adam and Eve is actually a mistranslation of a Biblical Hebrew euphemism for baculum (A penis bone)
xxV5 TIL that after an Orca killed a Great White Shark near California that the dead shark’s carcass odor caused all nearby great whites to flee. A great white with a satellite tag in the area immediately dove to 500 meters and then swam to Hawaii.
PYZJL TIL a study found that a majority of women tended to prefer a man who cracks clean jokes vs dirty jokes, both for a casual hook-up & for a long-term relationship. But women who had a positive feeling about casual sex tended to find dirty jokes funnier.
d8oBE TIL: in 1996 Dave Grohl had a cameo in an episode of The X-Files and had a huge crush on Gillian Anderson.
wLJ58 TIL economic and social ties between NYC and the secessionist South were so strong that on January 6, 1861, the Mayor of New York, Fernando Wood called for city to secede from the Union in support of the "Confederacy of which she was the proud Empire City"