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TIL how horses can sleep standing up

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kMN1 TIL in 1985 a Soviet icebreaker rescued a large pod of beluga whales trapped by pack ice, leading them to safety by playing music to lure them out through the cleared channels.
b60Q7 TIL about Atomic Gardening, where plants are subjected to radiation in hope of creating useful hybrids. And it's still done today.
5jmk TIL of Mike, the lowest ranking member of a chimp group that became the alpha male of the community overnight. He stole empty kerosene can from the researchers camp, and banged them to scare the other chimps
Z8Nrp TIL that the Capital Records building in L.A. built in 1955 has 8 subterranean echo chambers - each with a unique sound - that music producers in studios in the floors above can send recorded music to and receive it back nearly instantly - and toggle between on the sound board.
9wWKQ TIL Walt Disney originally planned to have The Wizard of Oz be the company’s second animated feature film after Snow White but the film rights were scooped up by MGM