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TIL that Elmer Fudd, the hunter from Looney Tunes, is a vegetarian, and just hunts for the sport of it

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D1Zjg TIL of the “Fruit Machine”. In 1961 the Canadian government hired a university professor to develop a machine to identify gay people. It was at the height of the Cold War and homosexuals were thought to be more susceptible to communism.
eDG6 TIL Robert Metcalfe predicted in 1995 that the internet would collapse in 1996, and “eat his words” if it did not. In 1997, he blended a printed copy of that speech with liquid and drank the mixture.
oyWK TIL of the “Madagascar Plan”, a proposal of the Third Reich to relocate the Jewish population of Europe to the island of Madagascar
l7NnN TIL that highest ever bird strike was recorded at the height of 37,000ft (11,470m)
4JNR TIL that Cambridge University conducted a test in which pigs were shown a mirror and encouraged to retrieve objects reflected in the mirror. The test results suggest that pigs can differentiate between reality and the reflected image, thus demonstrating a high level of cognitive awareness.