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TIL Wild Elephants Live Up to an Average of 39 Years Longer Than Their Zoo Counterparts

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911D TIL a guy upset with his then girlfriend for not properly mourning his father’s death hatched a plan to marry and conceive a child and then kill it later after the wife had bonded with it. He was convicted for murdering the 7 month old.
LQ0L0 TIL Bill Hader was fired from the set of the film K-PAX because he forgot to lock the film set which resulted in two apes from the neighbouring set of Planet of the Apes walking into a K-PAX scene.
VDY4 TIL falcons on the Moroccan island of Mogador catch small birds, then remove their flight and tail feathers and imprison them in crevasses in the rock to eat later.
DQD6Y TIL about the existence/use of “Snuff Tablets” in/by South American indigenous cultures 🤔😋👌🏼
gMeaX TIL Ted Kaczynski, who is often referred to as the unabomber, has an I.Q. of 167 and attended Harvard before he went on to kill 3 people and injure 23 others by sending bombs via the postal service.