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TIL that Bentley only uses leather from bulls for the upholstery of its cars, because they don’t get the stretch marks cows do.

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7rge7 TIL many bears in Russia are addicted to sniffing gasoline from abandoned barrels. Some are so addicted, they stalk helicopters to sniff the drops of fuel they leave behind.
e0Ga6 TIL Grant & Lee met again in 1869, 4 years after the American Civil War at the White House when Grant was President of the U.S. and Lee president of Washington University. Grant cracked a joke at Lee about railroads but Lee refused to smile. Their meeting was brief, lasting 15 minutes.
wLB6P TIL a staggering number of wild bee species are unaccounted for. Researchers looking at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility found there were about 25% less bee species reported between 2006 and 2015 compared to the 1990s
KYEe9 TIL Wolves don't have Alpha Male mentalities. This was a misunderstood theory.
kOnEW TIL the Associated Press published Nazi propaganda photos, changing their credits to conceal their origins. More recently, the AP had an exclusive deal with North Korea and published propaganda photos approved by that nation's dictatorship.