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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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v17Lj TIL about the feud between Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra over the affections of Ava Gardner, culminating in Sinatra driving a golf cart through a café window, a resulting fist-fight in which Sinatra lost two teeth, and ultimately led to the Mob's withdrawal from Vegas.
nellB TIL in medieval manuscripts there are many depictions of knights fighting giant snails. There's no solid reason why.
woY46 TiL there are an estimated 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world every year, and the largest recorded earthquake in the United States was a magnitude 9.2 that struck Prince William Sound, Alaska on March 28, 1964
QYYX TIL although film studios and music labels continue to mark their products with “all rights reserved”, this has had no legal effect since 2000.
wLEk8 TIL in 2004 215 restaurants in the Chinese province of Guizhou were closed after being charged with lacing their food with opium to make customers addicted. In 2016, 35 restaurants in the entire country were found doing the same thing.