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D1ndj TIL Barbra Streisand had her dead dog Sammie cloned twice and both dogs now have different personalities than the original.
69E6Z TIL the 1930 Philadelphia Phillies hold the record for most hits in a season at 1783, yet finished in last place due to a 6.71 earned run average, which is also a record high for the modern era.
ZRBQ TIL that dolphins are not uniquely intelligent; chickens perform similarly on the same intelligence tests used to push for legislation to designate dolphins “non-human persons”, & the evidence that dolphins are capable of complex emotions, such as empathy, have been inconclusive.
Ka4Q TIL that ‘Gangnam style’ was intended to poke fun at people who put on airs and pretended to be fashionable or classy, like people from the Gangnam district of Seoul
AD0a4 TIL that Dr. Thomas Midgely, inventor of both leaded-gasoline and chlorofluorocarbon with the best of intentions, devised an ingenious system of pulleys and strings to pull his polio-stricken body out of bed, which tangled around his neck, and killed him.