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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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LkGvr TIL-Mystery Behind Percy Fawcett’s Disappearance-He was most famous for his mapmaking expeditions to the Amazon, a place he called the last great blank space in the world. In 1925, at 57 years old he led his last expedition in the Amazon to find the Lost City of Z and was never heard from again.
XEpZ6 TIL: Bats compete with one another for food by jamming each other's sonar signals that they use to hunt insects.
Y4nZ TIL the discovery of a megalithic site known as Göbekli Tepe is changing our understanding of human capability during one of humanities most crucial stages of development, as it was built 5000 years before the first known major civilization.
ekYJ TIL that when asked about his thoughts on Ben Affleck playing Batman, George Clooney responded by saying “I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part”
neXJP TIL about a rumor that Stephen Hawking would deliberately run over the toes of people he didn’t like. He denied this rumor by stating it was “A Malicious rumor” and “I’ll run over anyone who repeats it!"