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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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R5mlj TIL TIL the Maori committed a mass genocide of New Zealand's second-largest indigenous group, the Moriori
X0LLk TIL about Casu Martzu (literally "rotten cheese), a Sardinian cheese filled with living maggots. It is banned in the EU but, somehow, a black market for the product exists.
XExYk TIL in 1881, Hawaiian King David Kalakaua traveled to the International Exposition, where he met Thomas Edison, who had filed a U.S. patent for his light bulb two years earlier. That visit inspired King Kalakaua to bring electricity to Honolulu just 4 years after it was installed in the White House.
XAnX TIL of the Battle of Saragarhi where 21 Sikh soldiers chose to fight to the death against 10,000 Pathans and Afghan tribesmen advancing on their signaling post in Saragarhi. It is considered by some military historians as one of history’s great last-stands.
8e1BP TIL Sid Vicious got his name after a friend’s hamster, named Syd (after Syd Barrett), who bit him.