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TIL about a hormonal phase musth, in bull elephants where they become very aggressive due to 60 times their normal levels of testosterone

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VMpLD TIL most avocados are descended from one tree grown by a Milwaukee postman in 1926
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J8EV TIL: From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade.