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TIL in africa giant rodents are being trained to help detect and combat wildlife trafficking.

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69LnZ TIL that Welsh boxer Tommy Farr, challenged Joe Louis for the heavyweight championship and gave Louis such hell, that the American home crowd booed when Louis was given the win.
PYjxn TIL Beekeepers need to tell their bees when a major event happens in their life, particularly deaths and marriages. If they don't the bees may leave!
6EKBm TIL 100% of the Doberman Pinscher breed pool will be affected by a genetic heart disorder (DCM) by 2040.
16ZVW TIL Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife were on-screen cousins, until they weren’t…
BkwD TIL that in 1968, the first instance on US television of physical contact between a black man (Harry Bellafonte) and a white woman (Petula Clark, who took hold of his arm when signing) made it to the screen only because Clark and her husband, destroyed all the takes where the contact did not occur.