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TIL Cooperative breeding (communal raising of the young) in animals is directly linked to a greater chance of altruism (helping someone for no reward).

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lojeN TIL the oldest continuously ongoing company in the world is a construction company in Japan specializing in Buddhist temples. Established in 578 CE, it is as old as the time when Buddhism was introduced into Japan in 538 CE. In 2007, after 1,429 years in business, it ran out of money.
4XJ1N TIL: Every year the Alpine Swift spends over 200 days in a row, in the air, without landing. How the birds are physiologically able to do it is still a mystery to scientists.
mxlGY TIL College football player Jake Butt won the “Tight End of the Year” award 2 years back to back.
GY8A7 TIL about The Lainz Angels of Death. Four nurses aides from Lainz, Vienna who confessed to murdering 49 patients over 6 years (could have been as many as 200). All were convicted in 1991 and have been subsequently released.
Bgr5D TIL a commercial for the Cocoa Pebbles cereal led Hulk Hogan to sue the company. The commercial had a character named Hulk Boulder fighting Flinstones characters. He claimed it damaged his reputation and used his image. Hogan and the company came to an agreement to never show the ad again.