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TIL There is a misconception that elephants think people look cute and harmless. Elephants have produced an evolutionary hard wiring that causes them to treat humans the way that they would other big predators, like lions

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jRWN TIL, if you’re like most drivers, you have your mirrors adjusted unsafely. They should be adjusted far outside so that you can’t see your car at all to get rid of “BLIND” spots.
rNB1d TIL about the 1863 Lieber Code (General Orders No. 100), a military codified law that governed the wartime conduct of the United States Union Army, making it one of the first armies in human history that prohibited r@pe, looting, arson, etc., with the punishment often being execution.
0LDv TIL that in 2007, the US Navy helped rescue a North Korean ship from Somail pirates, resulting in a rare pro-American press statement in North Korea
LboZ TIL that the easternmost point of Canada is closer to Croatia than to Vancouver
kJYX5 TIL Canon, written in the 17th Century by Johann Pachelbel, is well-known music often played at weddings and Christmas. But it was forgotten after it was written and languished in obscurity for centuries. It wasn't published until 1919; wasn't recorded until 1940; was virtually unknown until 1968.