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TIL about the US Navy's Marine Mammal Program which trains dolphins and sea lions to detect, locate, mark and recover objects in harbors, coastal areas, and at depth in the open sea.

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E1J4P TIL of the Heckler's Veto, where a speaker's freedom of speech is allowed to be impeded on if people who are listening are audibly overpowering the speaker.
R59W7 TIL there is a polar bear jail in northern Manitoba, Canada where polar bears are kept isolated until they can be relocated for the safety of the residents of the town of Churchill.
78QQX TIL there was a time when 6 geologists were convicted of manslaughter for failing to predict a deadly earthquake in Italy in 2009. They were later exonerated but faced high levels of shame from the general public afterwards.
QJpve TIL about Guinea Worm Disease, an extremely painful parasitic infection characterized by spaghetti-like worms up to 1 meter in length slowly emerging from the human body through blisters on the skin.
QNR7L TIL that the novelization of Star Wars: A New Hope was actually published several months before the release of the film, rather than the other way around