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TIL African buffalo herds display “voting behavior” to indicate their travel preferences by standing up, staring in one direction and then lying back down. Only adult females vote.

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00yv TIL Ray Bradbury attributed his habit of daily writing to an encounter as a child with a carnival entertainer, Mr. Electrico, who touched Bradbury on the nose with an electrified sword, made his hair stand on end, and shouted, “Live forever!” Bradbury wrote every single day of his life thereafter.
KOYJQ An extraordinary collection of images from Burns Archive shows the extent to which gas masks were promoted as an essential part of everyday life in the early 20th century. It had been 20 years since the end of World War I, when chlorine gas—and, later, mustard gas—had first been used. The estimates of total casualties from this form of chemical warfare are staggering: 88,000 dead and 1,200,000 injured. With war once again on the horizon, Britain and continental Europe began taking early precautions. In 1938, the British government issued 35 million “General Civilian Respirators”. Everyone from ballerinas to surgeons were encouraged to wear the masks.
6AeW TIL: Shawn Fonteno, guy who voiced ‘Franklin’ in GTA V is the same guy who knocked out Ice Cube and stole his chain in 90s.
kOAkm TIL in Taiwan, a 96-year-old saved his village from demolition by painting every surface of it with colourful imagery, which brought in so many tourists that the mayor ordered that the village be preserved.
Gyw5 TIL Tenzing Norgay left some chocolate at the top of Mt Everest when he climbed with Edmund Hillary. The chocolate was just eaten by some vandals in 2012.