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TIL that African wild dogs are the most successful predators/hunters, even better than lions, with a kill rate per chase of more than 85%

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wL716 TIL that the Empty Sky 9/11 Memorial in Jersey City consists of two parallel stainless steel walls, each 210 feet long by 30 feet high, that not only remember the names of the 476 New Jersey victims but also illuminate a dramatic halo of light that touches each name at dusk and at dawn.
N7b4b TIL Humans didn’t have a way to describe the color blue until relatively recently. Homer’s The Odyssey doesn’t contain a single instance of the word ‘blue’.
Q8bp TIL that a US soldier at Bagram prison camp in Afghanistan was nicknamed “Monster” and “King of Torture” and was reported to torture prisoners including poking bound prisoners in the face with his penis and threatening them with sexual assault. He was put on trial and acquitted of all charges.
5V90R TIL the hot springs in Yellowstone National Park are so acidic that they can dissolve a human body within a matter of hours
jNAaQ TIL that Steve Carter, 35, found out he was a missing child. Carter, who was adopted at 4, found an age-progression image through missing children. He discovered he'd been kidnapped by his birth mother and placed in an orphanage. His biological father reported him missing over three decades earlier.