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TIL: Siberian tigers are reported to be the most patient and punishing predators

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bKo9 TIL That while the United States has no legally mandated paid parental leave, Lithuanian women get 1 year at 100% pay or 2 years at 70% for the first year and 40% pay for the second. Men get at least one month off for each child.
R188 TIL That not only are trees and other plants interconnected, but trees will trade food between one another; a sick tree will transfer its energy stores to other healthy trees including trees of other species along with distress signals that may help other trees prepare themselves for trouble.
NNKN TIL Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist (“God Hates Fags”) Church, was excommunicated from the church he founded shortly before his death, because he apparently had a change of heart about gay people, calling the gay activists living across the street from the church “good people”
4XPLw TIL that Monday is also known as the ”Heart attack day” because there is a proven increase in the rate of heart attacks
7rNOO TIL On June 11, 1964 in Germany, a deranged World War II veteran attacked an elementary school with a flamethrower and a lance, killing eight students and two teachers.