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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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b6XNN TIL crows in South Korea memorize when and where people will feed them as part of a shamanistic tradition called keurigi. It is theorized they use their facial recognition abilities to know who will feed them and the crows make annual migrations to the shrines where these ceremonies take place
yQQ4M If you burn about 80 calories per mile walked, you’d need two trillion PowerBars to fuel the trip.
8r7V TIL of the Halcyon, a $2500, LaserDisc-based video game console from 1985. It was entirely voice-activated, and the manufacturer claimed it was as ‘intelligent’ as the HAL 9000. It never saw commercial release, and fewer than a dozen still exist.
yVQ4V TIL that a parietal eye, also known as a third eye or pineal eye, is a part of the epithalamus present in some vertebrates. The eye is located at top of the head, is photoreceptive and is associated with the pineal gland, regulating circadian rhythmicity and hormone production for thermoregulation.
Gek5 TIL that Boring, Oregon decided, on the suggestion of a Scottish cyclist who was passing through in 2012 on holiday, to pair with Dull, Scotland as a sister city in an effort to promote tourism in both places as a play on their names.