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TIL In Spotted Hyena clans, it's females who lead the pack.

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vPp0D TIL In 1952, the press criticized Marilyn Monroe on her red dress stating that she looked like she was in a potato sack. Few days later she responded with a photo of her in a potato sack dress
EgD6V TIL DreamWorks hired 120 former NASA scientists to help them develop technology for films such as “Home,” “Rise of the Guardians,” “Kung Fu Panda 2,” and “How To Train Your Dragon 2.”
9wdVD TIL that the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia is one of the hottest inhabited places on Earth, with temperatures regularly exceeding 120 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius).
R77D9 TIL there’s a species of cactus that lives so far north in Canada that it’s north of the southern edge of Alaska
rNAX0 TIL about the US WWII unit known as the “Ghost Army,” a tactical deception unit made of ~1000 soldiers. They used visual, sonic, and radio deception to fool German forces into thinking they had 30,000 soldiers with them.