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TIL that crows drop nuts in traffic to let the cars crush the nuts, then wait for red lights to stop the traffic so they can eat it.

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wL46Y TIL that elephants typically eat 200-600 pounds of food per day. They also can drink up to 50 gallons of water each day.
neYOB TIL about Gobekli Tepe, a 12,000-year-old temple (7,000 years older than Stonehenge) that predates humanity's oldest known civilizations and is full of strange animal carvings and towering stone pillars. The site's true purpose is still unknown.
yMDa TIL if you cut off a ring of bark around a tree trunk, the tree will die
0wYR5 TIL to reduce honking in India, researchers placed flashing red "Sad Face" buttons in cars that beeped every time a driver honked. In these tests, honking was reduced by 61%
9YWYD TIL that the world's oldest dog lived to the age of 29 years and 5 months