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TIL that rhinoceros mating can be brutal. First the males fight for dominance. Then the female chases the male. This is called a "bluff and bluster" ritual, & lasts hours. It often becomes violent, with wrestling and fighting. Sometimes it can even lead to death.

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MoJ7 TIL As a kid, Michio Kaku got 400 pounds of transformer steel and 44 miles of copper wire, to create a 6 kilowatt, 10,000 gauss magnetic field on his high school football field. He created a particle accelerator to find antimatter.
YpeWA TIL there is a form of insomnia so extreme it is invariably fatal, killing those who suffer from it an average of 18 months after symptoms begin.
ERxP TIL that Dung Beetles are the only non-human animals to navigate and Orient themselves using the Milky Way.
YplLx TIL that New Zealand's most decorated battalion in WW2 is the 28th, or the Māori Battalion. They were renowned for their fierce fighting spirit and extreme bravery, such that Rommel is even rumored to have said: "Give me the Maori Battalion and I will conquer the world".
EgK4p Til during late Cretaceous period seas and oceans covered at least 82% of Earth's surface, compared to 72% today.