TIL about the Spanish composer Enrique Granados who basically lived out the real life version of the end of Titanic when a ship he was on was torpedoed by a German submarine and his wife couldn't fit on the life raft.
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TIL about The Starlight Barking, the official sequel to 101 Dalmatians where humans are asleep, dogs get telepathic and flight powers and are invited by a Star Dog to go to space with it to a oid nuclear war in the future.
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TIL during the 2010 Commonwealth Games small monkeys roamed the Delhi streets and couldn't be removed because of religious reasons. So instead a larger species of monkey (The Colobinae) was brought in to scare away the smaller monkeys.
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TIL that 94% of women executives responsible for running an organization are former athletes
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TIL male dolphins will kill baby dolphins of another father so that the female will be available to mate with them.
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TIL that Estelle Getty, who played Sophia in TV show Golden Girls, was actually one year younger than Bea Arthur who played her daughter in the same show
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TIL Metallica released a video in 2012 appealing for help to solve the 2009 murder of a 20yo fan, Morgan Harrington, who disappeared after their show. They offered $50K on top of the $100K by police.
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TIL the Dutch word "Swaffelen" (meaning to hit an object or person with one's penis, often repeatedly) won 2008 word of the year in the Netherlands and Belgium.
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TIL humans are the "most sensitive" to the castor oil seeds: it takes 1 to kill a full grown human, 11 to kill a dog, and a massive dose of 80 to kill a duck. The seeds contain ricin which is roughly 6000 times more poisonous than cyanide.
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TIL: Cartels are Mexico’s fifth largest employer, making up 175,000 members
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