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TIL Wolves don't have Alpha Male mentalities. This was a misunderstood theory.

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8Rda TIL “Esposa”, the Spanish word for “handcuffs”, is also the word used for “wife” in Spanish
Ld5V TIL that as a consequence of HIV/AIDS, life expectancy in Swaziland has fallen from 61 years in 2000 to 32 years in 2009.
QNWjL TIL A close friend of the president Ronald Reagan and an heir to the Bloomingdale’s department store fortune, also known as “father of the credit card”, Alfred Bloomingdale was in a BDSM relationship with his mistress Vicki Morgan, who later was beaten to death with a baseball bat.
awQb TIL that the supply of Plutonium-238, the fuel used to power Curiosity and other exploratory spacecraft, is nearly depleted and is no longer being produced by either the US or Russia.
9wYb6 TIL Smoke following people around a fire is due to hot air rising from the fire and drawing cold air towards it. A person would block cold air from flowing in that particular location, causing the hot air, along with the smoke, to seemingly follow the person.