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TIL Dolphins are actually small whales

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9dy6 TIL that Sheryl Crow’s “All I Wanna Do” borrows most of its lyrics from a poem called “Fun” by Wyn Cooper, netting Cooper a ton of royalties and helping him get his poetry book rereleased
4Xb15 TIL of Fennos Paradox, which explains why Americans hate Congress but love their own congressman
QJ11L TIL about the Nazino Tragedy where 6,000 people were deported from the Soviet Union to an island where there was no food, shelter, or water. Within 13 weeks, over 4,000 died or disappeared and signs of cannibalism was present on some of the bodies.
R5pW6 TIL that the numerals that the majority of the world uses today were introduced from Béjaïa, Algeria to Europe via Italy through the Liber Abaci, a 13th century book written by Leonardo Fibonacci, who was introduced to them during his time in Béjaïa.
1aJQD TIL Mexican jumping beans are seed pods that have been inhabited by the larva of a small moth The "bean" "jumps" when heated because the larva spasms in an attempt to roll the seed to a cooler environment to avoid dehydration and consequent death.