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TIL two con men sold a fake painting for €1.5 million, only to find out that all the money was counterfeit

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QkPk TIL baby elephants still need to learn how to drink using their nose, that it’s not one of their instincts.
oVKL TIL the skull that appears on the moth from the Silence Of the Lambs poster is actually a Salvador Dali photo of 7 naked women.
XEKKD TIL in 1967 a three way battle erupted in Laos as Burmese militia, remnants of Chinese Nationalist armies and the Royal Loa Army each attempted to capture a mule train carrying 16 tons of opium. The Loatian forces emerged victorious and later peddled the heroin to US troops in Vietnam.
a80oL TIL reproduction via Sex started in Scotland A team of researchers says a fish called Microbrachius dicki is the first-known animal to stop reproducing by spawning and instead mate by having sex. The primitive bony fish, lived in ancient lakes about 385 million years ago in what is now Scotland
QN4aa TIL of Terrible Ted, a bear that fought in commercially promoted wrestling matches against humans from the 50s through the 70s.