17 Not-So-Fun Facts That Are Actually Pretty Damn Dark

“I read that NASA funded a scientist to study dolphin intelligence or something, and it ended with the scientist having sexual relations with the dolphins.”

—u/clueless_robot

In the documentary The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins — which took place in the ’60s — Margaret Howe Lovatt participated in said research, which aimed to teach dolphins to communicate with humans. According to The Atlantic, it started with Lovatt “moving in” with an adolescent dolphin named Peter so she could attempt to teach him. Well, she found their lessons to be particularly difficulty when Peter was aroused (which, apparently, happened often). According to her, Peter would alleviate himself against her, and eventually, she “took it upon herself to relieve Peter of his urges” as it was quicker than relocating him to the tanks with female dolphins to do it himself and would consistently interrupt their lessons. You can read more about it here.