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TIL A type of baboon and wolves in Ethiopia live in alliance together in a way that suggests domestication

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J1Xw8 TIL that Alexander the Great once put on a staged naval battle using his favorite food as their weapons, apples.
LQpYP TIL The Universe was so hot and dense after the big bang that it took 360,000 years for the first atoms to form. The proton and neutron formed atomic nuclei shortly after the big bang but the electrons were free of their orbit for hundreds of thousand of years.
lOXN TIL that in 2002 14 girls died in a fire after Religious Police refused exit to girls who were not properly dressed.
l7ZMV TIL that some sharks can "walk" on land. The epaulette shark can move across land using its fins, a fascinating adaptation that allows it to move between tide pools when the water recedes.
KYJE4 TIL South Korea has the fourth highest suicide rate, in part due to elderly isolation.