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TIL elephants are the only other mammals that have death rituals

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oLnK TIL In 1988 Mad Magazine drew attention to a cigarette manufacturer that owned a life insurance company - claiming cigarettes were harmless while charging more to insure smokers.
m1xVv TIL that Sir James Chadwick, the English physicist who discovered the neutron and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1935, actually enrolled in Physics by mistake when he was a University student. He wanted to study maths. He also led the British team of the Manhattan project.
Yp1Av TIL that love hotels, while common in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, are rare in the United States.
awmK9 TIL about the Arbëreshë people, an ethnic albanian minority in Italy who came escaping the Ottoman conquest of Albania between 700 and 300 years ago
kb47 TIL that the girl that runs towards Sean Astin (Samwise Gamgee) at the end of LOTR: The Return of the King is his actual daughter.