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TIL, Agent S is a girl. I've had her for years..

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lm61 TIL that researchers in the 1960s attempted to teach dolphins the human language. This experiment escalated when the female researcher started to masturbate the dolphin and then later taking LSD with the dolphin.
v1J8r TIL in 1817 a woman posed as the fictional Princess Caraboo of Javasu. She fooled a small British town for months into believing she was a princess who had been captured by pirates, jumped overboard in the British Channel and swam ashore. She was later recognised as a cobbler's daughter from Devon.
nPyb TIL One of the first items sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer. When eBay creator, Pierre Omidyar, emailed the person who bought the broken laser pointer for $14.83 ($22.40 today) to make sure he knew it was broken, the man told him “I’m a collector of broken laser pointers.”
gpk9 TIL Blue Raspberry was created for use in snow cones due to concerns over FD&C Red No. 2 dye; the research that deemed it safe had been sponsored by the companies producing the dye. The artificial flavor we know as raspberry was primarily created from banana, cherry, and pineapple esters (essences).
OoAy7 TIL that Saint Thomas à Becket, Petrarch, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Albrecht Dürer, Nicolaus Copernicus, Pope Gregory XIII (reformer of the calendar), Enzo Ferrari, Michaelangelo Antonioni, and Umberto Eco all studied at the same university