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TIL Elephants have a specific call to warn the herd of the presence of angry bees

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jNpmj Today I learned that Germany actually surrendered twice at the end of the WW2. One being 8th and the other 9th of May. This was due to the fact that Stalin inserted terms to make the Soviet contribution to the victory bigger.
8aOka TIL when in the 80s cheaper brands were lowering Intel's market share, the brand didn't know how to convince users to buy Intel-based PCs. But one retailer told them it would be enough to just tell people computers had Intel chips - and their idea, "Intel Inside" campaign, was a big sales success.
woJmM TIL since 2022 people in South Lake Tahoe, California reported that a single, male bear was the cause of 28 home break-ins. They referred to him as Hank the Tank. But it turned out they had conflated the actions of 3 adult bears including a female (with 3 cubs) who accounted for 21 of the break-ins.
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4opw TIL that the founder of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, was an atheist.