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TIL Elephants are quickly evolving smaller tusks due to the massive amount of poaching over the past 150 years

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NXj6N TIL the early Republican party had a paramilitary organization called "Wide Awakes" who marched for the election of Abe Lincoln, protect Republican party meetings, and equal rights between blacks and whites.
d8Q49 TIL in 1963 Soviet Engineers Detonated a Nuclear bomb to Put Out a Gas Well Fire
67Xw TIL that 3 specially trained beluga whales were placed in a ‘whale paddock’ at the mouth of Sochi Harbor to protect the port from underwater infiltration while the olympics take place
dD04Z TIL Betty Crocker was never real
7gWZ TIL ‘Munchausen by proxy’ is a label specifically for mothers who seek sympathy by making their children ill.