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TIL elephants are the only mammal other than humans which have chins.

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dnxd TIL Following the pepper-spraying incident involving peaceful protesters and an overzealous Campus Cop, UC Davis spent at least $175K in an effort to ‘scrub’ the internet of negative posts about the incident, part of their “strategic communications” budget that reached $5.47M in 2015.
b9jAN TIL that popular children’s show “The Flintstones”, was sponsored by a cigarette company, Winstons cigarettes.
AZ4x TIL When the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911 the police arrested and questioned Pablo Picasso
nZMr TIL Australia’s first police force was comprised of the best-behaved convicts
mGrR TIL the amount of matter converted to energy in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was about 700 milligrams, less than one-third the mass of a U.S. dime.