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TIL that some orcas prey on dolphins

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mx97E TIL in 2014 a group of civilian 'technoarchaeologists' operating from a former McDonald's contacted an abandoned 35 year old NASA solar satellite and took control of it, before a lack of fuel pressure derailed their plan to return the space probe to its original parking space at Lagrange point L1.
VMOBk TIL that there is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of Ice which started in 1990 and is rebuilt every year.
Darj TIL of a new suspect in the ‘Zodiac killer’ case. He was an editor for a counterculture newspaper in San Francisco, his voice has been ID’d by a 911 operator, and his full name appears in one of the ciphers; among several other pieces of circumstantial evidence.
XEelE TIL That John Chrysostomos is one of the people responsible for interpreting Sodom as a place of sodomy, instead of just a place of inhospitatality, which was the traditional interpretation before him.
j6wpQ TIL: That Golliwogs were the second most popular children's toy in Europe in the first half of the 20th century, after the teddy bear. They were banned by Nazi Germany in 1934 on the grounds that they were inappropriate toys for Aryan children.