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TIL that Wolves and Ravens have a special symbiotic relationship. Ravens are sometimes known as “wolf-birds” because they form social attachments with wolves.

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6JwQ TIL There’s a tree that owns itself, and cannot be legally tore down for urban development
WQA9 TIL on October 20, 1944, an above-ground natural gas storage tank began to leak. The gas eventually made its way into the sewers of Cleveland and ignited, blowing manhole covers miles away and shooting flames up through the plumbing of homes. 130 people were killed.
XEeX6 TIL the idiom "When my ship comes in" originated with sailors' wives who promised to pay off debts when the sailors' ships returned to port.
0wA9v TIL Aristotle believed the universe had existed forever. Something eternal is more perfect than something created. He suggested the reason we see progress was that floods, or other natural disasters, had repeatedly set civilization back to the beginning
166xO TIL in 1986 a Hotel in Singapore collapsed. Authorities were using heavy machinery to rescue survivors, a team of mainly Irish tunneling experts working on a new subway saw what was happening, and convinced authorities to let them tunnel for survivors instead. 17 people were rescued by them.