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TIL in 2018 the first documented instance of interspecies adoption between animals that strongly compete for resources in the wild was recorded when a lioness was observed to have adopted a baby leopard as one of her own.

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1aLNP TIL Peppermint Patty, a tomboy who was added to Peanuts in response to the women's lib movement, was often voiced by a male actor.
VBYaG TIL that Black Genesis, the second book in L. Ron Hubbard's series Mission Earth, was one of five nominees for the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel. It came in 6th place, behind all four other nominees as well as "No Award."
VBGQB TIL Gunter Schabowski accidentally announced the opening of the Berlin Wall at a press conference in 1989. He had not reviewed the press release script and was absent during the Politburo deliberations.
neZmW TIL that every live of a mammal ends with a expiration(exhalation) , because while inspiration(inhalation) is an active process, expiration is passive, which means when we die we automatically exhale because the diaphragm relaxes.
ZZ9o TIL an ancient Buddha statue recovered by the Nazis was carved from a meteorite.