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TIL Elephants are one of the few (if not the only) animals who can understand human pointing, without any training.

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LQBvd TIL the man that deposed the Jin Dynasty and founded the Liu Song Dynasty was a descendant of the Han Dynasty (which was deposed two centuries earlier by Cao Wei, Jin’s predecessor)
ANGb7 TIL that some early Chinese munitions consisted of black powder in a bamboo tube along with a live rat. When fired toward the enemy, the flaming rats created great psychological ramifications—scaring enemy soldiers away and causing cavalry units to go wild
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