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TIL that a large pride of Lions native to the Savute area of Botswana specialize in hunting adult elephants

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epNVg TIL that Winston Churchill’s famous “Iron Curtain” speech was given at a college in rural Missouri with about 600 students. The college later purchased a ruined historic church from London, transported it stone by stone, rebuilt it and turned part of it into a Churchill museum.
OJlL TIL that in 2004 after the airing of South Park’s “Trapped in the Closet” Matt Stone and Trey Parker were followed and investigated by the Church of Scientology.
4wA5 TIL that the ring-shaped donut was invented by 16 yeard old Hanson Gregory. He hated how the original shaped donuts tasted raw in the middle - so he punched out a hole with a pepper shaker.
JpAQ TIL a deaf man was moving some boxes at a friend’s house when Hawthorne, CA police arrived suspecting he was robbing the home. When the man tried to use American Sign language to tell the cops he was deaf, he was tased and beaten unconscious, then charged with assault (charges were later dropped)
8a9WZ TIL that in an experiment done on mice with Alzheimer's, exposing them to lights flickering at 40hz for an hour, reduced the beta-amyloid plaques in their brains by 50%.