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TIL African wild dogs vote on important pack matters by sneezing.

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gMX4y TIL during the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack in Kenya an ex SAS member and former Irish soldier joined forces to rescue victims of the shooting, organised police to attempt a counter attack and evaded gunfire while rescuing people still trapped in the mall
awOOZ TIL Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin moved to Singapore before Facebook went public and therefore saved himself as much as $100 million in U.S. Capital Gains Taxes
yQxDw TIL of the "California Nut Crimes", including the theft of 35 truckloads of nuts worth about $10 million between 2013 - 2017.
49Do TIL Muhammad Ali once invited Billy Crystal to go on a run with him at a local country club. Crystal replied that he’d love to, but Jews were restricted. Ali never went to the country club again.
MeAN7 TIL Leonardo Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi was sold at a New Orleans art gallery for $10,000 in 2005 and ended up selling for $450,000,000 in 2017. It's the most expensive painting ever sold.