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TIL the concept of Dibs is almost culturally universal.

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ZMBD TIL Male dolphins separate female dolphins from their families and deny them food until they agree to mate.
VBKbk TIL in 2012 two drunk tourists stole a penguin named Dirk from an aquarium after they broke into the SeaWorld in Queensland, Australia. The next day they released him into a canal but were spotted by locals, who reported them. Both were fined £637.
J1ppB TIL that a computer programmer became a romance author. After developing SuperBASIC for the Sinclair QL computer, Jan Jones began writing fiction; her first book, 'Stage By Stage' (2005), won the Romantic Novelists' Association's Joan Hessayon Award.
0wNZL TIL it's cheaper to adopt a black baby than other types of children. Adopting biracial, Latino, Asian or Caucasian children typically has a longer waiting list than for black children. The agencies cut the cost of adopting black children as a means of creating incentive.
l1BV TIL that the saucer under coffee cups was originally used to pour out the coffee and let it cool. Then people slurped the coffee from the saucer.