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TIL The Hardy Tree in London’s St. Pancras churchyard is named for Thomas Hardy. The Victorian writer worked at the burial ground in the 1860s and rearranged tombstones around the base of an ash tree to make room for a railway expansion.

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4XoOo TIL a Cheetah bite will barely puncture an animals skin. Their relatively small jaws and teeth make it hard to effectively kill prey. A Cheetah kills by asphyxiation, which could take up to 5 to 25 minutes.
OGQ6g TIL Habituating Mountain Gorillas to get used to humans is a complex process. Initially aggressive, they start to recognize familiar humans. To get gorillas to become comfortable around white tourists, African rangers wear paper masks so they eventually won't run away from white people
RJl9 TIL that MLB pitcher Daniel Norris lives off just $800 a month, despite a million dollar salary. He says “Who am I to deserve that? What have I really done?” and “I’m actually more comfortable being kind of poor.”
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y6JX TIL that among Turkic peoples, there is a sport called “girl chasing”, in which a man and a woman race against each other on horseback. If the man wins, he gets a kiss from the woman. If the woman wins, she gets to beat the man with a whip.