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TIL elephants bury their dead, can do math, use tools, and see humans like humans see puppies (the same part of their brain lights up when we see puppies; that’s why many elephants stroke humans with their trunk)

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epA1E TIL that the North American Wildlife Research Team set up a trap to catch Bigfoot, and it managed to catch 6 bears.
KOnnJ TIL of Stanley Hollis, the only British soldier to earn a Victoria cross medal for his actions on dday. He fought on multiple fronts during the war, killed hundreds of enemy troops, took out a tiger tank single-handed and on dday took out 2 pill boxes and captured multiple prisoners single-handed.
xVX9b TIL that Japanese people traditionally eat KFC for Christmas dinner, thanks to a successful marketing campaign 40 years ago. KFC is so popular that customers must place their Christmas orders 2 months in advance.
Wkmyo TIL A scam artist tricked multiple US government agencies into spending over $20M on fake intelligence software. In 2003 the CIA grounded a US-bound flight after the software detected a credible threat had been made, and the con was discovered when the airline conducted an independent investigation.
bnAQ TIL that the banana actually is used as a unit of measure for radiation exposure.