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TIL: 50 year old men traveling alone on foot are the most likely victims of wild boar attacks.

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Wk0N TIL Female penguins will sometimes engage in elaborate courtship rituals just to run off with a male’s pebbles. Also, prostitution.
4doa TIL that a study found that cats are more than capable of recognizing their owner’s voice but choose to ignore it.
OMxe TIL that New Zealand once tried to weaponize tsunamis (Project Seal)
xyvD TIL that Michael Morton spent 25 years of a life sentence in prison for the murder of his wife. Finally after years of fighting for the rights to a DNA test on a bloody bandana found at the scene, he was exonerated by DNA evidence linking a known felon to the murder.
RZQ6 TIL in 1915 a group of 112 Belgian prisoners asked the German commandant permission to organize a bike race. Under strict rules and heavy oversight, the racers escaped from Belgium simply by continuing after they crossed the finish line.