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TIL When wolves howl together, they harmonize rather than sing on one note to give the illusion of greater numbers.

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Rdew TIL that in Norway you can’t change your surname to one held by less than 200 people unless you get permission from each and every one of them
7n1X TIL that ~83% of Jewish Americans support same-sex marriage, far surpassing the national average of 55% and the 72% of the 18-39 year old demographic.
5VJAk TIL that to deter "train surfers", Indonesia installed concrete balls on chains above the train tracks after earlier trials of barbed wire, hosing down riders with red paint, and threatening them with dogs all failed
VMWvZ TIL In 1914, the exchange rate of the German mark to the American dollar was about 4.2 to one. Nine years later, it was 4.2 trillion to one. The price of a loaf of bread went from 250 marks in January 1923 to 200 trillion in November.
vPy8K TIL about unisexual mole salamanders - a group of all-female salamanders that use a unique reproductive strategy called kleptogenesis. These salamanders "steal" sperm from up to five different species of salamanders in the Ambystoma genus and use it to produce female hybrid offspring.