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TIL there is a fish whose scientific name is Boops boops.

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xr9k TIL Elephant populations aren’t the only ones being threatened by unsustainable poaching. Elephant poachers are also targeting vultures. it is becoming increasingly common for poachers to poison the carcass of elephants they hunt, so that the circling birds don’t give away the location of the kill.
kvv1 TIL, in 1850, a severe storm in Scotland eroded a hillock, thus revealing “Skara Brae”, a well preserved Neolithic settlement.
jNAX TIL that the top tax rate in the US, while at 35% now, used to be above 90% in the 1950s and ‘60s.
ADRBo TIL The 1936 Nobel Prize for Physics went to Carl D. Anderson for the discovery of the positron. While a graduate student at Caltech in 1930, Chung-Yao Chao was the first to experimentally identify positrons through electron–positron annihilation, but did not realize what they were
5YaXp [TIL] you should not pee on a jellyfish sting because it might make worse. Instead you should gently try to remove the tentacles in salt water or gently scrape them off with something plastic like a credit card.