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TIL Coyotes and badgers will hunt together. The badger digs up the prey and the coyote runs it down.

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LenV TIL that the Canada-Denmark Territorial Conflict over Hans Island escalates to Danish military going there and leaving a bottle of schnapps and a sign proclaiming “Welcome to the Danish Island” and then Canadian military forces leaving a bottle of Canadian Club and a sign saying, ‘Welcome to Canada"
ne0AG TIL of mother-in-law languages (also known as avoidance speech) which dictate that a new restricted speech style utilizing a different vocabulary, while retaining the normal phonology and grammar must be utilized in the presence of certain relatives (such a as mother-in-law) which are seen as taboo
vdAL TIL Hakeem “The Dream” Olajuwon turned down shoe deals from big brands, chooses 34.99 Spalding shoes from Payless “How can a poor working mother with three boys buy Nikes or Reeboks that cost $120?…She can’t. So kids steal these shoes from stores and from other kids. Sometimes they kill for them.”
nemJ7 TIL the generation who grew up watching black-and-white TV experienced predominantly colourless dreams, until the widespread of colour television in the 1960s.
g0W9 TIL A derivative of Mustard Gas was the first drug used as chemotherapy to treat cancer