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TIL That Pine Nuts come from Pine Cones

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RKDQ TIL Dolphins can communicate with one another over a telephone, and appear to know who they are talking. In one experiment carried in an aquarium in Hawaii, the mother and her two-year-old calf in another tank, connected by a special underwater audio link, recognized each other and “talked”.
kkk1 TIL according to an book on New Zealand farming, Moscow offered to give NZ a nuclear submarine, MiG jets and tanks to help settle Russia’s debt for dairy products. When told that NZ had a nuclear-free policy, Moscow’s response was: “tie it up in some port and connect it to the national grid”
nBMo TIL that in Eve Online a player set up an in-game bank that operated legitimately for several months. The bank’s founder then stole nearly 790 billion units of in-game currency, nearly $170,000 in real world dollars. This was all perfectly legal.
LQEnv TIL there’s a percentage of a percentage of the population that will fall asleep when things get too emotional, regardless of where they are or what they’re doing. It’s called Type 1 Narcolepsy.
N7vYN TIL that deer antlers are literally weaponized cancerous growths