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TIL The penalty for killing an elephant in Sri Lanka is death

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P1WMJ Today I learned there were 12 confirmed dogs on the Titanic and 3 of them survived.
KP0J TIL cats “directly register”, meaning that while walking, their back paws land in the same spot as their front paws, which minimizes noise and visible tracks.
VBBbQ TIL one of the first uses of biological agents for murder was in Calcutta, 1933, when Benoyendra Pandey secretly injected Plague into his brother on a train station over a property dispute. He had a previously failed attempt using Tetanus laced spectacles
BgNZr TIL that in 1982 all five TV Emmy award nominees for Best Actor were from one show, Hill Street Blues
6xJW TIL Muhammad Ali believed that whites and blacks should be separated, supported George Wallace and once spoke at a KKK rally.