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TIL The biologist that made the term "Alpha Wolf" popular has since corrected his stance. Stating that most wolves who lead packs achieved their position by simply mating and creating their own pack.

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nb9b TIL that Donnie Yen in his late 90s was at a nightclub with his then girlfriend who was getting harassed by a gang of thugs. Yen warned them to leave her alone but to no avail and as they left, the gang followed and attacked Yen. According to reports Yen hospitalized upto 8 members of the gang.
D1RpP TIL that in 1998, after analyzing the United States' real estate cycle, Georgist economist Fred Foldvary correctly predicted that there would be a recession-causing crash in the housing market in 2008.
R7jm7 TIL Aubrey Plaza played on a rec league basketball team called the Pistol Shrimps, a team that consisted of models, actresses and comedy writers in 2016.
8Qxa TIL: All octopuses are venomous! They ‘drill’ a hole through the prey’s shell or exoskeleton using their tough beak and tongue and insert their venomous saliva into the soft interior to kill their prey. There is a special antarctic octopus whose venom works at temperatures that other venom wouldn’t!
GDj5 TIL in 1999 the legal and historical record of Martin Luther King assassination was changed when his family won a civil suit proving with evidence that the CIA and a restaurant owner were responsible for the death of Mr. King and not James Earl Ray who was actually convicted.