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Today I learned about a group of 6 adult male lions that formed a coalition and took over 7,000 acres of land, killed over 100 other lions, and practiced cannabalism for over 16 years.

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Zp9Da TIL that Pablo Neruda (the Nobel winning poet laureate) who died 12 days after Pinochet's successful coup in 1973. This week, a new toxicological report confirmed his poisoning, finding traces of Clostridium Botulinum, a neurotoxin that paralyzes the muscles and the nervous system leading to death.
jdla TIL that when Harald Bohr (brother of Niels Bohr), noted Danish mathematician & footballer, defended his doctoral thesis the audience consisted of more football fans than mathematicians.
APPn TIL that the exfoliating microbeads in skincare products are actually terrible for the environment - water treatment plants cannot filter them out, plastic waste found polluting the Great Lakes
dX6r TIL that some people theorized that the problems that initially plagued the Hadron collider were the result of time travelers sabotaging the operation in order to prevent some unknown future problem.
X0gbX TIL the King of Bhutan is known as "Druk Gyalpo" which translates to "Dragon King." Additionally, many Bhutanese people use the endonym "Drukpa" to identify themselves, which means "Dragon People."