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TIL the first student protest in the United States happened at Harvard in 1766 when a student yelled out “Behold, our butter stinketh!— give us therefore, butter that stinketh not.” This sparked The Great Butter Rebellion.

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D1paY TIL that groups of dolphins pass around puffer fishes to get high. The puffer fish is carried in their mouth till it releases a small dose of neurotoxin.
DkEe TIL that scientists successfully connected a paralyzed patient’s brain to a tablet who was able to type and surf the Internet
wnYo TIL that while Stalin was often depicted as physically massive and majestic (he had several painters shot who did not depict him “right”), he was only 5 feet 4 inches. Harry S. Truman described him as “A little squirt”
8rv4 TIL Comanche Indians would torture captured settlers by cutting off their genitals, stuffing them in their mouths, sewing their lips together, then staking them over a nest of red ants until dead - Comanche women often orchestrated the torture.
0w0w1 TIL China has often complained that Nobel science prize selection boards have long favored Chinese winners only when they aren’t citizens. Chinese born Yang Chen Ning and Andrew Yao shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 but established their careers in the US