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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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WnGY TIL the cameraman who videotaped The Station nightclub fire was there to film a planned segment on nightclub safety
4Xg5J TIL that the sun and the moon look to be the same size because the diameter of the sun and moon and the distance to earth both share a 1:400 difference, making them look the same size, this has not been seen with any other planet-moon combination
rRlwW TIL about Donny the Doberman, a gifted dog, that has been shown arranging some of his 80 plush toys into evenly spaced triangles and lines, and chooses to use, for example, only stuffed frogs or monkeys for a particular design, completely of his own accord.
R54ma TIL "gene guns" (referred to formally as biolistic particle delivery systems) exist. They work by firing small, metal bullets coated with genetic material at a target. While normally used on plants due to the relative ease of transformation, they have also been tested on animal cell cultures.
kJGX5 TIL: That the oldest meteorite on Earth is older than our solar system itself, at 5 billion years old.