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TIL that coyotes and badgers often hunt together

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7rvOb TIL The Hubble Telescope is using Spermaceti (whale oil) to lubricate its parts due to whale oil's capacity to withstand extremely cold temperatures without coagulation.
N7rd1 TIL a journalist who reported on his own serial murders was caught when he including facts in his articles that only the killer would have known.
nWo9Y TIL that Gutzon Borglum, the designer and sculptor for Mount Rushmore, was later commissioned to create a statue of Woodrow Wilson in Poznań, Poland. The statue was destroyed in 1945 when the Soviets and Germans fought for control of the city.
97X TIL that crying releases excess stress hormones, thus creating the effect of feeling better after crying.
5VDVr TIL about Manhattanhenge - a phenomenon where the sun sinks (or rises) directly between the grid of Manhattans skyline