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TIL that due to elephants with tusks getting poached, humans are literally causing natural selection from more elephants being born tuskless over the past decades.

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l79P1 TIL that Cleopatra’s beauty regimen included bathing in donkey milk. She reportedly used the milk of 700 donkeys for her baths to preserve her skin's softness and youth.
nWXer TIL that leaving a Plasma Globe Lamp near a device like a laptop or a phone sends a strong enough radio signal to mess with the functionality of it.
DQ7Xp TIL Somatoparaphrenia is a condition where a person denies ownership of a part of their body, usually their left arm or leg. They may claim that the limb belongs to someone else, or that it is a foreign object. They may also ignore, reject, or harm their affected limb, or try to get rid of it.
VMxR4 TIL King of Prussia Frederick II to lure his subjects to grow and eat potato who at first refused to do so, ordered his soldiers to guard the fields but not too strictly and allow stealing. The peasants assuming the fruits must be very precious to be guarded, started growing and eating them.
JYYEQ The US Air Force’s scientific research wing is giving Lockheed Martin $26.3 million “for the design, development, and production of a high power (tens of kilowatts) fiber laser,” which it expects to start testing on a tactical fighter jet in four years.