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TIL Gulls Perform a "Rain Dance" to Mimic Heavy Rainfall Tricking Worms to Surface and Ultimately be Eaten

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O1Q7 TIL An individual horse has a peak power output of 14.9 horsepower.
ZMBD TIL Male dolphins separate female dolphins from their families and deny them food until they agree to mate.
XEbPj TIL Principles by Ray Dalio
VyMp TIL more than 300 people died in a supermarket fire because the owners shut the doors in order to prevent people from fleeing with merchandise without paying for it.
awydN TIL the first gravitational waves directly observed by LIGO required detecting a wobble in space time 1000 times smaller than the nucleus of an atom. This wobble was originally caused by black holes colliding 1.3 billion light years away.