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TIL “Mobbing” is a practice among Hawaiian monk seal where multiple males attack one female in an attempt to mate

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LkrN0 TIL the hottest known substance in the universe is actually created on Earth at the Large Hadron Collider. When gold particles are smashed together, for a split second temperatures can reach up to 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit, which is hotter than a supernova.
WZAA TIL That CAPTCHA is short for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
N77v8 TIL during a break in filming the Grinch movie, Jim Carrey pulled a prank on tourists on the Universal Studios backlot by running out of the Bates Motel in a dress holding a knife
4k1oR TIL Canada almost had a constitutional crisis during WWI due to imposing conscription; English Canadians supported the war due to British ties while French Canadians were adamantly against the war due to lack of loyalty to the UK or France
BrZWr TIL André Roussimoff (aka Andre the Giant) has been unofficially crowned "the greatest drunk on Earth" and is said to have once drank 156 16-fl-oz beers in one sitting