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TIL that coyotes and badgers often hunt together
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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.
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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.
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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.
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TIL that crying releases excess stress hormones, thus creating the effect of feeling better after crying.
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TIL about Manhattanhenge - a phenomenon where the sun sinks (or rises) directly between the grid of Manhattans skyline