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TIL: Renegades Auberjonois was a Bonaparte

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pGWN TIL Google donated 5 million dollars to a program that uses drones to track poachers in Africa and Asia.
OLM1 TIL a man named ‘Colin Chisholm III’ and his wife were convicted of collecting nearly $168K in public assistance, including food, cash, and medical care, all while living on a $1.2M yacht. Chrisholm was the CEO of a satellite TV company and his wife owned a championship dog kennel.
6BlJ TIL In loud environments, people are twice as likely to comply with requests asked in their right ear rather than their left.
R7DMa TIL that in 2014 Pope Francis declared evolution and the Big Bang Theory to be right and said that the Big Bang "does not contradict the divine act of creating, but rather requires it".
1a887 TIL a 2017 University of Iowa experiment concluded that pigeons can understand concepts of space and time, but not exactly how they do it. The birds “judged longer lines to also have longer duration and judged lines longer in duration to also be longer in length.”