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TIL Great White Sharks will flee their hunting grounds and won’t return for up to a year when killer whales pass by

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mxpy TIL that every president ever assassinated has tried to either put U.S. Dollar notes into circulation or end the private banking systems in the U.S.
QNRnL TIL that prisoners in a Russian penal colony near Moscow used a cat to smuggle drugs. The cat was found with 5.79 grams of hashish and 1.56 grams of amphetamine hidden under its collar. Both the defense and prosecution lawyers wanted to use the cat as evidence to support their cases.
9MAX TIL that there are voice recordings of US presidents as far back as Benjamin Harrison (in 1889), and you can listen to them online.
p8WjZ TIL that Mountain Dew’s original tag line was “Ya-hoo, Mountain Dew! It’ll tickle yore innards!”
wME8 TIL in 2005 a glitch in World of Warcraft allowed a plague to spread in the game leading non-infected players to abandon cities while those infected were forced into quarantines. It was later studied by epidemiologists to see how real life people would react to a pandemic.