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TIL that the most successful predator in Africa is the African wild dog. If a pack targets a prey, there’s an 85% chance they’ll bring it down successfully

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ZKR TIL A North Korean agent hijacked a plane and landed in North Korea. North Korea hasn’t returned 11 of the members of that flight.
N7V1E TIL in 2003 unknown Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman proved the long awaited Poincaré conjecture publishing it openly. He is the only person to reject Fields Medal, Clay Millennium prize of $1,000,000 and EMS prize. He has since vanished back to obscurity.
RAx1 TIL that beavers are considered fish by the Catholic Church, allowing them to be eaten during lent.
a8gP0 TIL Boxing Day in the UK used to be pushed back a day to the 27th December if it fell on a Sunday. The 26th would be Christmas Sunday.
aw7LJ TIL that nearly 70 years after Pearl Harbor, the USS Arizona continues to leak up to 9 quarts of oil each day.