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TIL that due to the lack of natural predators on the Galápagos Islands, the wildlife is very friendly and extremely tame without instinctual fear

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4krR TIL that Socrates’ would walk, according to historians, with “ a swagger so intimidating that enemy soldiers kept their distance” and “barefoot and unwashed, carrying a stick and looking arrogant”
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