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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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nWWYP TIL the character "Daddy" Warbucks, from the comic strip 'Annie', was briefly killed off by the writer Gray on the grounds that it was widely thought that capitalists were obsolete. Warbucks was resurrected, however, after FDR's death. Warbucks represented cartoonist Harold Gray's free-market views.
mBkR TIL: Lord Farquaad, the villain in Shrek, was based on Disney’s Michael Eisenberg after he fired eventual Dreamworks founder Jeffrey Katzenberg.
YB9Z TIL that Oreo cookies are actually the knock-off brand of another company, Hydrox.
e0W0g TIL that working memory operates phonologically which helps Chinese speaking people to remember more digits than English speakers because Chinese number words are all single syllables whereas words in English aren’t.
J16Q8 TIL the space shuttle would orbit tail-first due to space debris, this allowed it to take a greater proportion of the debris load on the engines and rear cargo bay, which were not needed in orbit or during descent.