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TIL elephant babies suck on their trunks for comfort.

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p0Z4 TIL In 1888 Alfred Nobel’s brother died, but a newspaper published his obituary instead. It condemned him for inventing dynamite and stated, “The merchant of death is dead.” Alfred was so disappointed with what he read that he used his wealth to celebrate humanity and created the Nobel Prize.
xVON5 TIL in the final years of World War II, Italian businessman Giorgio Perlasca risked his life by posing as a Spanish diplomat in order to save more than 5,000 Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust. Perlasca, a non-Jew, has been honored for his heroism, courage, and compassion by several nations
5Ymp9 TIL - Steve Jobs became a billionaire because of his work at Pixar, not because of his involvement with Apple.
8aPoG TIL - The "Thagomizer", the spiked tail on a stegosaurid dinosaur, didn't have an official name till the cartoonist Gary Larson did a comic about it, named it, and the scientific community just accepted it and started using it too.
OmRY TIL Dung Beetles are the only animal on Earth other than Humans to use the stars for navigation