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TIL Forests Are Dying in Thailand Due to the Loss of Elephants and Their Revitalizing Poop

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vj77 TIL China has more “excess” males (32 million) than Australia has people.
epWgJ TIL While Apollo 15 astronaut Jim Irwin was lugging heavy objects on the Moon, flight surgeons noticed an irregularity in his heart rate and realized he had bigeminy. His heart condition eventually killed him 20 years later.
ADgJd TIL Marlon Brando’s final film was a movie called “Big Bug Man”. The animated film, co-starring Brendan Fraser, still has not been released and likely never will be.
xank TIL if our hearing was anymore sensitive than what it is now, we would be able to hear the background hiss of air molecules colliding.
VBJVm TIL That the English language recipe for Guacamole was presented by...a pirate