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TIL some wasps can recognize each other’s faces

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jNNQR TIL that New York City has 520 miles of coastline - more than the coastline of Miami, San Francisco, Boston and Los Angeles combined
5nND TIL that in the USA, possession of child pornography often results in a harsher sentence than actually molesting a child would
xVWm7 TIL the guy on the cover of The Best of Kansas is the abolitionist John Brown
xVaDB TIL the makers of the "Airplane!" and "Naked Gun" movies bought a horse just to make a joke. They named the horse All Pink and instructed the jockey not to win but to stay on the inside rail the whole race just to hear the play-by-play announcer say "It's All Pink on the inside!"
rlP1 TIL War elephant drivers had a chisel and a hammer in order to cut the spinal cord of an elephant on the battlefield if it caused too mutch damage in its own lines.