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TIL elephants can hear clouds

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XEkLk TIL that in the city of Iruma, Japan keeps track of their elderly citizen who have dementia by having placing a waterproof QR sticker on their fingernails or toenails
OGN7 TIL that a reliable way of detecting art forgeries is to test for cesium-137 and strontium-90 as these isotopes did not exist in nature prior to the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945.
XEORX TIL that along with over 4000 tons of Gold, the US Government also stores millions of dollars worth of opium at Fort Knox.
xVpmw TIL In Denmark if you are unmarried on your 25th birthday friends play a prank by blasting one with cinnamon. On your 30th birthday the cinnamon gets upgraded to pepper. Danes sometimes add eggs to the mix because it “helps with adhesion.”
b6B6Z TIL that, despite being taught to learn from failure/mistakes, humans tend to block the memories of failure and make the same mistakes again.