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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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oBgDA TIL Mandrakes are real. In one superstition, people who pull up the root will be condemned to hell. The mandrake root would scream as it was pulled from the ground, killing anyone who heard it. In the past, people tied the roots to animals and then used the animals to pull the roots from the soil.
JYnDj TIL that in 1955 a lightning bolt struck a land mine from WW1 in Belgium killing a cow, making that cow a casualty of war.
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