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TIL when elephants ‘dance’, they’re really mentally ill and depressed from confinement and restriction from freedom and socialising

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b6Pdp TIL there was a confidential Simple Sabotage directive for CIA workers to use in case of a military coup in WWII.
5Yl8 TIL that the Muhammad Ali effect (in psychology), named after Muhammad Ali, states that people who are asked to rate their intelligence and moral behavior in comparison to others,will rate themselves as more moral, but not more intelligent than others.
V69G TIL: When the mummified body of Ramses II was transported in 1974, it was issued an Egyptian passport, which listed his occupation as “King (deceased).”
P1EAZ TIL of the Hell Creek Formation, a band of 66-million-year-old rocks that records the last million years of the dinosaurs’ reign and is found in parts of Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota and North Dakota. It’s where the T Rex was discovered in 1902
J1bMj TIL progress on an extension to the Metrolink Antelope Valley line to Palmdale and Lancaster in LA was expedited by approximately 10 years by an earthquake. Portions of freeways serving those cities collapsed leading to an emergency extension to the line and temporary platforms being built.