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TIL Elephants rape and kill rhinos. There have been at least 63 confirmed instances in Pilanesberg Park alone.

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9wkVM TIL: For centuries, physicians blamed behavioral changes (especially among the mentally ill) on the pull of the moon. The word “lunatic,” stemmed from this idea.
9wbO6 TIL that up to 93 million people suffer from Central Sleep Apnea, a sleep disorder where the brain ‘forgets’ to tell the body to breathe.
o1mo TIL Walmart only sells clean versions of albums and if an artist refuses to make a clean version Walmart will not sell it.
yQRaJ TIL NASA originally planned to fly moon missions up to Apollo 20, but budget cutbacks ended at Apollo 17 and left 3 Saturn V rockets unused. 2 wound up in museums, and 1 was repurposed to launch the Skylab space station.
epj6n TIL: The 1891 New Orleans lynching of 11 Italian Americans, in New Orleans, was the largest single mass lynching in American history