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TIL that congress can hire pirates to attack foreign enemies. It’s in Clause 11

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98Qm TIL that “Extinct” Pygmy Elephants Have Been Found Living on Borneo
lROV TIL that among the methods to find out how Latin was pronounced was comparing spelling mistakes.
xVk8D TIL a chair is used for lion taming due to how a cat's brain has evolved to only deal with a single thing at a time. The four legs of the chair confuse the lion, rendering it mostly harmless.
pYrjG TIL that eating a tiny bit of mom's poop could give C-section babies an immune ‘primer'
78wKZ TIL that scientists have figured out a way to weigh clouds. Determining the cloud's approximate size is the first step. Clouds that are average in size weigh just about 1.1 million pounds.