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TIL elephants console one another when they are upset with trunk strokes and touches

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BrOKr TIL the sinner side of Mahatma Gandhi. I'm losing faith in humanity each day.
DQedr TIL: It is illegal for a private company to deliver a letter without using a USPS stamp and it being ink cancelled, even if the USPS does not handle the letter.
b9RM7 TIL of the Siege of Weinsberg. A surrender allowed the women to leave with whatever they could carry, so the women lifted their husbands onto their shoulders and walked out.
5QWB TIL that it is not only possible to be elected Governor of Louisiana with only 33% of the vote, it actually happened as recently as 1987.
ZdRR TIL of Kevin Mitnick, a hacker believed to be so dangerous that he was placed in solitary confinement for fear of being able to “start a thermonuclear war by whistling into a payphone.”