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TIL wild elephants have around double the life expectancy of their zoo counterparts.

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OOx1 TIL “That awkward moment when…” as a meme dates back at least as far as 1924 (see cartoon title in center of page).
0wG4y TIL about Andy George who spent $1,500 and 6 months making a single sandwich completely from scratch. He did absolutely everything from making his own cheese to harvesting his own wheat. He made his own salt and made his own oil. He grew sunflowers and collected their seeds to extract fat.
7r04b TIL in 2019 a man dressed in a morph suit scammed an entire village by asking them to pay and he'd reveal his identity later. He would later disappear with their money.
nW5p7 TIL~2600 yrs ago in China, an ill king was predicted by a prophet that he won't live to eat the next harvest. When he was later presented with the new harvest and ready to eat it, he remembered the prediction and killed the seer, felt stomachache before eating, went to latrine, fell in and died.
LQb6V TIL that after Claude Monet had cataract surgery, he could see ultraviolet light which made everything look more bluish and vibrant in his paintings