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TIL Dolphins are actually small whales
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TIL about Mauro Prosperi who was lost in the Sahara. To avoid agonizing death from starvation and to save his wife from legal red tape, he slashed his wrists with a knife. However, due to his severe dehydration, his blood had clotted around the cuts. He reached a nomad tribe a few days later.
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TIL a guy implied he was going to build a 480 ft skyscraper but labeled all the plans as 480". Then he had it built 40’ tall as per the plans, pocketed the investment money and won in court because he didn’t technically defraud anyone.
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TIL Burma-Shave once offered a free trip to Mars in exchange for 900 empty Burma-Shave jars. One man duly collected 900 jars - and was sent to Moers, Germany (pronounced “Mars”)
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TIL that Steve Irwin's father refused a state funeral for his son because in the words of his son, he was an "ordinary bloke".
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TIL in 1995 Newsweek published an article berating the internet and calling visions about its future "baloney". It predicted that "no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works."