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TIL Elephants are afraid of bees, so African farmers are putting beehives at the edge of their farms to keep elephants out

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rlOw TIL that, eight year’s before the Harry Potter books were published, Jane Yolen published a book called Wizard’s Hall about young boy named Henry who gets recruited to a wizard’s school with teacher’s pictures that move about and a wicked wizard who used to teach there …
6ZW8 TIL candy pumpkins were placed on the seat of every U.S. Senator by the candy industry in 1985 in hopes of extending U.S. daylight saving time to cover Halloween.
Oa8g TIL Neil deGrasse was dismissed for jury duty as he teaches a class in Princeton that looks at the “evaluation of evidence and the relative unreliability of eyewitness testimony.”
4kReb TIL that Richard Mulcaster (1531-1611) established both our core modern English spelling rules, and core football rules like positions and coaches.
M7EO0 TIL the deadliest hurricane in US history was a hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas in 1900. It killed between 6,000 and 12,000 people. Debris and dead bodies spread so far that trains 6 miles (9.7 km) from the city were forced to stop. All bridges to the island of Galveston were washed out.