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TIL There are no green mammals.

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bNd9 TIL dolphins have been recorded having conversations in which they alter volume and frequency of pulsed clicks to form individual “words” which they string together into sentences in much the same way that humans speak. Each dolphin would listen to a sentence without interruption before replying.
VWMG TIL As a result of where fighting began in 1914 and ended in 1918 on the Western Front (Mons, Belgium), the first and last soldiers of the British Empire to be killed in the First World War are buried in the same cemetery.
mxEXP TIL Charlie Chaplin was the subject of an FBI investigation due to alleged communist sympathies during the height of McCarthyism. He later said "As for politics, I am an anarchist. I hate government and rules - and fetters ... People must be free."
P11kZ TIL About the Resolute Desk, which was built from the scrap of the HMS Resolute. It has been used by most Presidents since 1880.
95Er TIL The end of slavery led to starvation and death for millions of black Americans