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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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0VAp TIL The depression throughout Japan following WWII was what inspired Osamu Tezuka,the father of manga and a medical student at the time,to draw comics to convince people to have hope again.These comics swept thru Japan and laid the foundation for the Japanese manga/anime culture that we know today
5YVoQ TIL that ants keep cattle and farm fungi, they keep aphids as cattle and milk them bye tickling them with their antennas
R5nb6 TIL that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock Holmes) took a single wicket during his brief first class Cricket career - that of the famed W. G. Grace - and he was so elated at the achievement that he wrote a poem about it.
4Owg TIL that one bear - Bart, a 9'6’’ Kodiak - starred in dozens of Hollywood films opposite the likes of Dan Aykroyd, Anthony Hopkins, Annette Bening, Ethan Hawke, Gregory Peck, and John Candy. His biopic was narrated by Brad Pitt, with whom he worked in Legends of the Fall
75E7 TIL the process of seppuku, suicide by disemboweling to preserve honor, eventually became so ritualized that the abdominal cut was not even needed. The samurai merely reached for a fan instead of a knife, and doing so signaled the merciful beheading strike by the samurai’s assistant.