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TIL Cornell's Elephant Listening Project records and analyzes forest elephant calls to better understand where they are, what they’re doing, and what they’re trying to tell us.

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X0mEP TIL that Anogenital Distance (the length of one's taint, i.e. distance between junk and anus) is a thing that scientists have studied and a larger AGD ratios are linked with greater fertility.
p8WOp TIL Ann Druyan, a member of the team that assembled the Golden Record for the Voyager, recorded her brainwaves to put on it. A few days before, she and Carl Sagan professed their love to each other. So somewhere in space is a golden disc with the recorded brainwaves of someone madly in love.
9YKLQ TIL dimethyl sulfide creates the rotten meat smell. One smell created by phytoplankton causes the smell of the ocean. "The largest single commercial producer of DMS in the world is Gaylord Chemical Corporation." "DMS is highly flammable and an eye and skin irritant." DMS is VERY potent in smell.
R9ol TIL that when Bill Robinson, early film megastar and sidekick to Shirley Temple, was asked by a manager to leave a restaurant, he asked to borrow a $10 bill. When the manager agreed, he mixed it up with six $10 bills from his own wallet and said “Here, let’s see you pick out the colored one”.
470J TIL Starboard means “steer"board, which is the side of the steering oar on the right side since most people are right-handed. Naturally in that case, the left-side will be where you dock with the "Port”.