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TIL Two rescued elephant herds gathered to the funeral of the conservationist who saved their life. It took them 12 hours to get there, without any sign or contact with them to “announce” his death. They hadn’t visited the home in over 3 years, and left after 2 nights and 2 days of grieving.

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YDx7 TIL that Jason Rohrer created a board game that could not be played for, at most, 2700 years because he hid it in 1 of 1,017,000 different locations in the Nevada Desert.
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