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TIL: You’re not allowed to visit the isle of Komodo if you’re on your period as it can attract dragons

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l75xK TIL Cornell's Elephant Listening Project records and analyzes forest elephant calls to better understand where they are, what they’re doing, and what they’re trying to tell us.
w4M6 TIL that J. R. R. Tolkien might have gotten the idea for a ring that makes its wearer invisible from an ancient, Greek story told by one of Plato’s students about a shepherd discovering such a ring on a cadaver in a cave, and then using it to kill his king
1O0P TIL that J.P. Morgan personally led a reverse-bailout of the US economy. Twice.
rV4d TIL when B-52’s singer Fred Schneider tried to come out as gay to his mother as she was vacuuming, she simply replied “Oh I know, Freddie” and continued to vacuum without missing a beat.
7nZr TIL that spiders tune each strand of their web to a specific frequency by making some strans tighter than others so that when something is caught in it, the spider can easily pinpoint where it is. This is also used for determining whether what cause the sound is a food or a potential mate.