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TIL Elephants are compassionate toward the weak and altruistic toward other species

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kOaY5 TIL: that there are 200 fireproof copies (asbestos binding) of Fahrenheit 451.
8ebnb Today I learned that there is a 1 Acre plot that belongs to the United States in Great Britain. It's a memorial for JFK, and Queen Elizabeth granted the plot to America
d8L8 TIL that not making your bed is actually better/healthier than making it.
nYgG TIL that pop rocks (and other popping candy) work by carbonating the candy in its liquid state, creating high pressure pockets of gas that are released when you eat it. Effectively, its a carbonated food as opposed to a carbonated beverage.
Zpw1a TIL That when cholera was appearing in London in the 1830s one prescribed cure was to inject turpentine and mutton stew up the anus