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TIL that an elephant’s ability to smell water is so refined, they can sometimes detect water sources from as much as 12 miles away

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BKjr TIL Rory McCann (The Hound from Game of Thrones) once fell 70 ft while rock climbing without a rope and broke both of his ankles, an arm, and a wrist, as well as fracturing his skull. He went on to play a man left paraplegic after a climbing accident in one of his earliest roles.
KNy4 TIL that in 1946, a man claiming to be a detective gave a pedestrian a camera and asked her to take a picture of a suspect. The “detective” turned out to be a gangster, the “suspect” turned out to be his ex-wife, and the “camera” turned out to be a concealed shotgun firing via the shutter button.
YpkdA TIL that 500,000 Papuans have been killed by the Indonesian military since 1969
JYOa8 TIL the Suicide Rates per Capita in the infamous Foxconn factories that produce Iphones are lower than all 50 US states
nePXr TIL that meal worms can break down plastics like Styrofoam and sadly "No attempts to commercialize this discovery have been made."