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TIL: Just like you can cross a donkey and mare to create a mule, and you can cross a lion and a tiger to great a liger, it's possible for a whale and a dolphin to breed and produce a wholphin.

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6xxW TIL the American animated television show RoboTech is the result of heavily editing three Japanese television series that were previously unrelated to one another.
69LwZ TIL: There was a German medical study on Shuriken (ninja stars) wounds. They used pig carcasses while researchers threw a cyclone shuriken, a plastic one, and a traditional one. All 3 were capable of inflicting fatal wounds. This study served to promote discussion on the German shuriken ban of 1980.
E6NV TIL that in 2007, a teenager was arrested after sending an email describing his arsenal of weapons and desire to “kill in the name of our unholy lord Satan” to Peter Gilmore, high priest of the Church of Satan, whom then alerted the FBI.
X041E TIL that in 2000 it was estimated that between 230,000 to 284,000 iatrogenic deaths occurred annually in the USA.
m1WQM TIL that in WWII, American bombers dropped empty beer bottles as noise makers to confuse Japanese sound-locator flak gun directors, and in other cases to frighten and confuse Japanese troops to keep them awake all night before an Allied attack.