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TIL elephants can tell the difference between human languages and know which languages belong to people with a history of hurting elephants.

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78lA7 TIL that the culpeo, a South American fox species, was domesticated by the Selk'nam people of Tierra del Fuego, resulting in the "Fuegian dog". However, the Fuegian dog became extinct in the late 19th or early 20th century as a result of the genocide the Selk'nam people.
E1jA7 TIL that a small town in Michigan organizes betting each and every year on when a car will fall through lake ice. It's done for charity.
1a8NV TIL for several years the CIA paid sex workers to bring men back to a “safehouse” brothel so they could secretly dose them with LSD and watch what happened through a two-way mirror in an effort to find a mind control drug.
PYVRO TIL Jason David Frank filmed a pilot that would eventually become VR Troopers called "Cybertron."
xQ4B TIL The worlds oldest bottle of unopened wine dates from 325 AD and was discovered in a Roman tomb. It’s preservation is attributed to the large amount of liquid olive oil added to the bottle.