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TIL there are elephants in Kenya that go into caves to mine salt

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LQvjQ TIL there's a legally blind man who had his eye lenses removed and since then he is able to see celestial objects normally invisible to the naked eye. His name is Tim Doucette and he has his own observatory in Nova Scotia.
rN7nw TIL that Greek combines letters to form letters that don't exist in the Greek alphabet
PYKw TIL That a gas cloud will get too close to the Black Hole in the center of our galaxy next year, and we’ll see it ripped apart.
9Y5QX TIL Peter Buck, guitarist of R.E.M., was in an airline incident where he was seen shoving a CD into a drinks trolley thinking it was a CD player, claiming "I am R.E.M." and struggling over a yogurt cup with two flight attendants, which resulted in the cup exploding. He was charged with assault.
gM4lW TIL when Mussolini’s Air Force attacked Malta in WW2, the British garrison had no defense prepared against the air raids. Luckily, they discovered biplanes packed away in crates and were able to assemble three Gladiators to disrupt the Italians for 10 days before reinforcements arrived.