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TIL Gorillas who have experience with poacher's snares can learn how to break them. In late 2024, while debating how to intervene and help a trapped Gorilla, a group of park rangers observed the Silverback of the group stepping in and saving his family member by breaking the wire on his own

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X07Qj TIL Marc-Antoine Fardin published a paper in which he cited photographs of cats in jars, baskets and salad bowls and concluded that cats have the properties of both solid and liquid objects. For this work, Fardon was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017.
5VLPp TIL about the Widowhood Effect: When a husband or wife dies, the surviving spouse faces a higher risk of dying over the next few months.
Ypm1v TIL in spring of 1942 German U-boats terrorized east coast of US sinking fuel tankers and cargo ships with impunity and often within sight of shore and in less than 7 months destroyed 22 percent of the tanker fleet and sank 233 ships killing 5,000 ...more than 2X number who perished at Pearl Harbor.
NXwEe TIL that December 11 is the most common breakup day of the year, with Christmas causing couples to reflect on whether they want to continue with relationship.
ANQXo TIL Bruce Willis has dementia