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TIL farmers in Kenya are using elephants’ natural fears of bees and building “beehive fences” that keep wild elephants from trampling the crops. It keeps the farms safe, and prevents farmers having to kill elephants to defend their livelihood!

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ADbrn TIL Tennessee's "Crack tax" required drug dealers to anonymously pay taxes on their illegal sales and earned the state more than $6 million (mostly in seized property), before benig declared "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable, and therefore invalid under the constitution of [the] state."
OlE1 TIL that Bohemian Grove is a 137 year old secret camp, that Nixon called “the most faggy goddamn thing you could ever imagine”. The camp is private and only open to the rich and powerful men of the world.
4X8E5 TIL Wilt Chamberlain was able to dunk a basketball from the free-throw line without a running start. Because of this, he routinely dunked his free throws and the NCAA and NBA eventually decided to institute rules to prevent this.
P1KeZ TIL Debra Houston set the record for world's oldest soap box derby racer at 59 when she competed at the Soap Box Derby National Championships. At first she just wanted to sign up her grandkids to a racing league to get them out of the house but was urged to race due to her small height and weight.
8e9AG TIL modern float spas can be traced back to psychonaut and dolphin language researcher John C. Lilly.