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TIL that wolves in the wild do not have “alpha males” or “alpha females” with subordinate “betas” or “gammas”. Wolf packs are a family with the offspring of previous years.

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5VmRn TIL: A mule always has a donkey father and a horse mother. An offspring of a horse father and a donkey mother is called a hinny.
JYOg1 TIL, the traditional cowboy look arose from Mexican vaqueros and the word buckaroo came about as a mispronunciation of the word vaquero
j6yQN TIL 12-year-old Bahia Bakari was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Indian Ocean that killed her mom & 151 others. She had little swimming experience & no life vest. So she clung to a piece of the wreckage & floated in heavy seas for over 9 hours, much of it in darkness, before being rescued.
9wwOm TIL that pretty much evry other country bases the beginning of Summer and Winter on the solstices. I’m Aussie and here summer always begins on December first; Winter always begins on June first. I used other sources to verify this as well; this one is just the best site where the point is most clear
GmW5 TIL Pee-Wee’s house in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure was a residential home owned by a “Chinese woman who barely spoke English” in Pasadena, CA. The director painted it fire engine red. “When we went in to do the house and painted it red, she was terrified that everyone would think she was a Communist.“