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TIL the US federal government captures and sells excess wild horses to the public

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Yb9G TIL in 2003 a herd of elephants encircled a camp of antelope hunters in Empangani, South Africa. The 11 elephants surrounded the enclosure keeping the hunters at bay, while the matriarch used her trunk to unhook the gates of the captured antelope, allowing them to run free.
M7RAB TIL Macaulay Culkin's legal name is "Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin."
PDQe TIL Fraggles are just the ‘evolutive form’ of doozers that stop working.
W7Xj4 TIL that SOS never actually stood for anything, but instead was a Morse code distress signal that used these letters since they were easy to signal
78Rj7 TIL Californians are limited to 1.8 gallons of water per a minute per their shower heads. In my country I have a flow rate of 5 gallons a minute in a waterfall type shower head. How do Californians even stay clean with 1.8 when the federal rate is 2.5 gallons, way higher.