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TIL there is a place called 'Canada' in Kentucky.

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Lpv0 TIL Atilla The Hun died from drunkingly choking on his own blood. He was buried in secret, in a river. His body was placed inside of 3 coffins, one of each made of gold, silver, and iron. Those who buried him were then killed so that nobody would know where the grave was.
1ad7W TIL male dolphins form alliances and aggressively pursue females to mate. The females frequently "bolted", but only managed to escape 1/4 attempts. Male dolphins sometimes also commit infanticide so that their mothers will come back into estrus. Dolphins also occasionally practice incest.
8eE0a TIL There is a national (US) grocery Best Bagger competition since 1987
lRBa TIL: while exploring the newly discovered Yellowstone, Truman Everts got separated from the group. His horse then ran away with supplies, he fell on his campfire, fell hip deep into a geyser, and was finally found crawling months later with frostbite weighing a mere 55 lbs.
xmPg TIL that during the cold war, when navy divers repairing a whale enclosure heard a human-like voice saying “out, out, out,” and got out of the water to see nobody, they found out that a beluga whale named “Noc” had learned to mimic human speech and was trying to communicate with them.