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TIL Kathy Boudin Served 23 Years In Prison For Felony Murder. After Her Release She Earned A Doctorate And Became An Adjunct Professor At Columbia University.

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AZAw TIL Adult meerkats teach their young to hunt scorpions safely by first presenting them with dead scorpions and then soon after with live scorpions that the adult had already removed their deadly stingers from
P1nEJ TIL war pigs were used by the Romans because the squeals would scare war elephants into fleeing, and cause them to trample their own armies
JVpl TIL Blue is the most liked colour by far, chosen by almost half of the US and European population as their favourite colour.
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M9pV TIL that the russian scientist Anatoli Bugorski got struck in the face by a proton beam in a particle accelerator, and survived. He described the sensation as seeing a light “brighter than a thousand suns”