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TIL African wild dogs actually have a hunting success rate of 15.5%, not 85% like previously assumed.

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ep4mJ TIL Joseph Kerwin was the first American physician to go to space and had the first chance to study space medicine. Ready on Skylab with a minor surgery kit and drugs, a dislocated finger was the most serious ailment any of the three astronauts experienced when he was there
M7QBm TIL The often repeated story that European Starlings were introduced to the United States as part of a Shakespeare in the Park celebration in 1890 is almost entirely fiction. Dozens of organizations were importing and introducing the birds across the US and Canada for decades prior.
loGvA TIL Thomas Edison was considered to be troubled at learning by administrators. When his mother got thus report she pulled him out of school and decided to home school him. She believed he just saw things differently than others and needed more attention.
9Pem TIL the UK has 1% of the world’s population but 20% of its CCTV cameras - one for every 14 people
jN9vQ TIL Russian stereotype of being vodka drinkers stems back for 4 centuries when the rulers and government would produce cheap vodka as a stream of revenue