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TIL Ethiopian Baboons are starting to domesticate wolves

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MeWB7 TIL about the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which allowed 4 media conglomerates to buy out all successful indie hip-hop labels, eventually making hip-hop less about art & social change & more about crime, gang life, & sex as those sold more records, according to Prof Tricia Rose of Brown Uni.
KONgG TIL of Wille Herold, a private of the German Army in World War II, who posed as a Luftwaffe captain and subsequently organized the mass execution of deserters in a German prison camp in the last days of the war.
W7EPN TIL Pythagoras thought beans contained a human soul and fought against their consumption or destruction. One account of his death claims that he would not enter a bean field to escape pursuers, so they killed him.
naDd TIL an underground system governs the turf that China’s beggars can work: able-bodied beggars who intrude on territory reserved for the disabled or elderly are beaten
gM1W8 TIL Julie Andrews lost the ability to sing due to a botched vocal surgery in 1997