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TIL that pigs are cannibalistic towards piglets, largely due to hormonal fluctuations among gilts.

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yeEV TIL drivers stuck in traffic jams in Beijing can call someone to come to them on a motorbike. The driver then hops on the bike while the deliveryman waits out the jam and delivers the car to the destination when traffic clears.
QNjp6 TIL Neil Armstrong claims he said “One small step for A man…” but the “A” was dropped in transmission
QODk TIL that when the character Batwoman was first introduced in 1956, it was to give Batman a love interest after accusations of his homosexuality. When Batwoman was reinvented in 2006, she was explicitly a lesbian.
v1ev8 TIL of Brigadier General Edward Lansdale, who in post WWII Philippines used the natives’ belief in vampires and ghosts his psychological warfare campaign. His men were instructed to abduct enemy stragglers, kill them, puncture their necks twice, and then bleed the corpses out. Edited for grammar
9Y44m TIL that Mount Rushmore is built in the black hills, a mountain range considered sacred to the Lakota tribe which the United States took in 1876. "Members of the American Indian Movement led an occupation of the monument in 1971, naming it "Mount Crazy Horse"