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TIL a young female Arctic fox fitted with a tracking device trekked 2,175 miles from Norway to Canada in 76 days, settling on Ellesmere Island in Canada. She traveled an average of 28 miles/day with a maximum pace of 96 miles/day, outpacing a previously tracked adult male fox by 1.4 times.

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Y7njv TIL the expression Humble Pie derives from umble pie, a pie filled with chopped or minced offal, especially of deer but often other meats.
ZpkKD TIL in 2018 a New York police officer was driving to work when she saw a boy jump 30 feet off of an overpass — she then made the same jump to save his life. "I just knew, when I looked down and saw him… he looked dead... I thought to myself, ‘He needs help. I need to help him.’"
KOdnQ TIL about claqueurs—audience members paid to cheer. It was common in theater/opera before fading out 70 yrs ago. The Bolshoi Theater still has them—they give dancers an extra moment to catch their breath at key points. Claqueurs can get revenge on agreement-breakers by applauding at wrong moments.
W7QoB TIL how platform like uber make our food more expensive. ( Spoiler: they take their cut too, not just delivery fee)
mNGx TIL billionaire J. Paul Getty refused to pay $17m ransom for his kidnapped Grandson. When the teenager’s severed ear arrived, he agreed $3m but only paid $2.2m… the maximum that would be tax deductable. He lent the other $800k to his son on the condition that he pay it back with 4% interest.