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TIL that elephants can also communicate through seismic signals - sounds that create vibrations in the ground - which they may detect through their bones.

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6El17 TIL that your blood is never blue, even if it is deoxygenated.
WkXN8 TIL in 1972 a snorkeling chemist investigating what he first believed was a buried corpse uncovered the Riace Bronzes, little known to the public and today considered by many to be the most exquisite and alluring statues ever made for their combined realism and exaggeration of key features
jGdN TIL Richard Nixon described Bohemian Grove as “the most faggy goddamn thing you can ever imagine.”
brpN TIL of Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a town in New Zealand. The name means “The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one”.
6EyQQ TIL about Bolivian festival Tinku. During this ritual, men and women from different communities will meet and begin the festivities by dancing. The women will then form circles and begin chanting while the men proceed to fight each other.