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TIL that due to poaching, female African elephants are evolving tuskless; about 1/3 of females in a Mozambique Nat'l Park were born tuskless with males evolving smaller tusks. They use tusks to compete for mating, dig for water and topple trees for food which in turn creates habitats and water holes

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NW9b TIL “Fire responds strongly to electric fields and is even pretty conductive”
DQB6p TIL journalist Dan Rather was fired after reporting that Bush did not finish his time at the Air National Guard using inauthentic documents as evidence
EwBp TIL that Colombians are obsessed with plastic surgery. The Latin American country did 375,000 cosmetic procedures in 2015 for both natives and foreigners, #2 per capita to South Korea. Thousands of Colombian teenage girls save money for years to have their first surgery at the legal age of 18.
5VOLP TIL that when Peyton Manning was 5, his mother took him to a Saints game, as his father Archie was the quarterback. Due to Archie's poor performance, the crowd started booing him. Peyton's mother was worried that seeing his father booed would upset Peyton, only to see that he was also booing Archie.
Myp8 TIL that most Black Widow spider bites in the US occur in outhouses when a man’s penis dangles under the seat where spiders make their webs.