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TIL Elephants "may show lateral preference when grasping with their trunks: some prefer to twist them to the left, others to the right." Essentially, they can be left or right "trunked"!

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8aOr8 TIL of Canned Lions, who are taken from their mothers, sold to petting zoos and then ultimately to hunting events for tourists to shoot. It’s legal in SA.
pDg4 TIL in 2011 the Detroit Symphony Orchestra was in a deep financial crisis. Kid Rock, in what he called “the best drunk move I ever made,” decided to throw a benefit concert. He raised over one million dollars for the symphony and helped save classical music in Detroit.
Eg6MW Today I learned Heath Ledger Was Originally Attached To Direct ’The Queen’s Gambit’ and strongly consider Elliott (Ellen at the time) Page for the lead.
KlKR TIL: As late as 1985 there was still 26 states with no drunk driving laws. You could map a 3,700 mile drive from Key West in Florida to the Idaho - Canada border. That would allow you to legally drink the whole drive.
D1Qdr TIL A woman who was pulled over for a routine traffic stop, spent 6 weeks in jail because a cop performed a roadside field test which mistakenly provided a positive result for meth on a spoon she had eaten spaghetti-o's with.