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TIL Elephants are Evolving to Lose Their Tusks to Avoid Poachers

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NYx1 TIL Russian millionare Pavel Durov was so bored at the office, he threw paper airplanes made of money out his window, causing a brawl outside
b6m5Q TIL North Carolina gave $20 million in taxpayer dollars to clean up dead farm animals after Hurricane Florence, then also reimbursed farmers for the animals
QJEKX TIL that the Black Panther Party created the Free Breakfast for School Children Program in which they gave free breakfasts to over 10,000 kids so that they’d have the energy to learn in school
yQaZJ TIL that Alex Trebek and Jesse Ventura guest starred on an episode of the X-Files as The Men in Black.
7rjoX TIL the renouned British pub meal, 'Ploughman's Lunch', was invented in the 1950s as a marketing exercise. The Cheese Bureau, a marketing body, began promoting it in pubs as a way to increase the sales of cheese, which had recently ceased to be rationed.