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TIL elephants call each other by name and respond when they hear others call their name

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oBGaA TIL that people typically overestimate their physical activity levels by an average of 84%, and as much as 173%. This is because they don’t understand what is meant by moderate and vigorous intensity exercise.
XEp5R TIL in 1970 film critic Roger Ebert wrote the screenplay for ‘Beyond the Valley of the Dolls’. One review described it as “a treat for the emotionally retarded, sexually inadequate and dimwitted. It is a grievously sick melange of hypermammalian girls, obvious double-entendres and sadistic violence”
dYb7 TIL:When flatworms mate two"males" use their bifurcated penises to fence one another. The winner of the flatworm who stabs the other with its penis remains male while the loser becomes female.
axZM TIL that in Iceland, the phonebook is sorted by first names because everyone’s surname is basically their father’s first name followed by -son or -dottir
wOB8 TIL when Rodney Dangerfield died they held a Native American butterfly-release ceremony hosted by Farrah Fawcett.