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TIL octopuses kill themselves after laying eggs and its related to self injurious behavior in humans

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LwRv TIL “Judas” goats helped eradicate invasive goats in the Galápagos Islands. These goats are sterilized, GPS tracked, and given hormones to attract other goats so that armed hunters could kill all the goats from a helicopter, but leave the Judas goats alive so they could be used to find more goats.
vPP6r TIL That if you see an orange cat, at 81%, it's a male, while if you see a tri-color cat, it's 99.9% female.
e09DL TIL Alex, a talking parrot with vocabulary of around 100 words, died at age of 31, his last words being very heartwarming (More info in article!)
XEpMP TIL in 2016, Alex Trebek, the host of "Jeopardy!", donated a total of $7.5 million to his Alma mater, University of Ottawa, to fund a Forum for Dialogue and a Speaker Series. The goal is to expose students to different world views through discussions and panels by speakers from around the world.
oPXR TIL literacy in North Korea is defined by the ability to write “Kim Il-Sung”