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TIL that a dolphin known as “Stinky” has been sexually terrorizing divers and snorkelers off the coast of Grand Cayman Islands.

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4koxw Today I learned that the Ancient Greco-Roman practise of placing coins in the eyes or mouth of the deceased as payment for Charon was still practised in Cambodia recently under a different religious belief.
QJD6 TIL Cold War defense computers had ashtrays
ydvJ TIL Katharine Lee Bates, author of ‘America the Beautiful’ was a lesbian who left the Republican party in 1924 over its growing xenophobia
6E69Y TIL that the tornado in 'The Wizard of Oz' is just a 35 foot stocking blown by artificial wind and dirt held up by a "gantry" on a set - the gantry cost more than the whole anticipated budget for the entire scene; $218,347.23 in todays money.
Zp7gB TIL of The Bachelor of Powalgarh, an exceptionally large, man-eating Indian Bengal tiger, which was sought after and eventually shot and killed by Jim Corbett in 1930. The tiger was 10 feet 7 inches long