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TIL that there is a specific bark of a male cheetah that causes females to ovulate.

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b6JdE TIL that Thailand operates the world’s smallest aircraft carrier. It carries a handful of helicopters, many of which have been reported as broken; and it mostly sits in dock except for one training day per month. It has been derided as the world’s priciest royal yacht.
QJ4Gk TIL Paul McCartney wrote Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me), because Dustin Hoffman did not believe that he could write a song "about anything", so Hoffman pulled out a magazine where they saw the story about Picasso's last words and McCartney created a demo of the song and lyrics on the spot.
kJkDB TIL the Babylonians were already calculating the probability of eclipses 4,000 years ago.
rRwlx TIL during the Spanish Civil War the anarchist militias had no rank system, no hierarchy, no salutes, and military leaders were elected by the troops
JYnVQ TIL Stanford University was founded in 1885 by Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr., who died of typhoid fever at 15. After his 1884 death, the Stanfords determined that they would use their wealth to do something for “other people’s” children