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TIL that elephants use a unique inner ear structure, and behavioral adaptations, to feel and respond to vibrations through the earth from other elephants kilometers away (called seismics).

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waP8 TIL that there is a plant called Acacia phlebophylla which only grows in one place in the world, Mount Buffalo in Australia. It also happens to be one of the purest natural sources of the psychadelic drug DMT.
b6eo4 TIL that California’s Central Valley has sunk by up to 28 feet since the 1920s due to groundwater pumping. Some parts of the valley are still sinking by up to 2 feet per year.
p8XyZ TIL vanilla is the second most expensive spice
8ev68 TIL that when you flush the toilet, stool particles fly up, up to five feet in the air.
VBOd0 TIL Akira Toriyama originally planned to end Dragon Ball after the dragon balls were collected, which happened in chapter 19. Dragon Ball lasted 519 chapters.