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TIL that meerkats are less altruistic but more egoistic.

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7rMnx TIL that Commodus, a Roman emperor often portrayed in media as vile and cruel, would shoot hundreds of animals with arrows and javelins every morning, and fought as a gladiator every afternoon, winning all the fights. He was strangled by his wrestler partner and declared a public enemy post death.
8anZa TIL that Mortal Kombat 3 was the only Game Boy game ever to be rated M by the ESRB
Z8eDB TIL In 2016, Wall St hedge funds uncovered a scandal in the Georgia Chicken Index, and may have uncovered price fixing by Big Chicken
R7VQ4 TIL A 700,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Point to Mysterious Human Relative Someone butchered a rhinoceros in the Philippines hundreds of thousands of years before modern humans arrived—but who?
DyVD TIL that in 2008, Italy spent $65,000,000 to bail out the Parmesan cheese industry