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TIL That dolphins and whales are best buds and play mates. A dolphin will get on top of the whale’s head, then the whale tilts upwards so the dolphin can slide down into the water.

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vPNGL TIL the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami was so powerful that it increased Earth's rotation speed and shortened the length of the day by 2.68 microseconds
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.”
kOjVm TIL that the energy used to produce a single metal straw is equivalent to 90 plastic straws and the carbon emitted is equivalent to about 150. You'd have to use your metal straw 150 times to break even before it actually becomes beneficial to the environment.
16BaV TIL that in Starship Troopers (1997) the crew used over 300,000 blank rounds. Thought to be a record at the time and due the following years of CGI, the record probably has never been broken.
R50B1 TIL that the longest wedding veil on record was over 6,000 meters long. It was worn by a bride in Cyprus and required a team of 50 people to carry it down the aisle.