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TIL that production of hankos - personal seals used by Japanese instead of signatures - is the main driving factor behind illegal trade of ivory to Japan

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5aD8 TIL that Vatican’s chief astronomer, Fr. George Coyne said, “Intelligent design isn’t science even though it pretends to be. If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science.”
rNKK0 TIL that the highest-flying living thing on Earth is a type of bacteria called Bacillus stratosphericus, which can be found floating in the air at altitudes of up to 41 kilometers (25 miles)
epKYb TIL Canadian Geese poop every 12 minutes.
8G6K TIL that when faced with over 1,000 NVA troops, Roy P. Benavidez flew into a gunfight to save 12 Special Forces soldiers with only a knife. He was shot multiple times and believed dead, until he spit in the face of the medic trying to put him in a body bag.
4noa TIL that the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, updated his Harvard University alumni listing to include his 8 life sentences as “awards” and his current occupation as “prisoner.”