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TIL An elephant (Tarra) and a stray dog (Bella) were inseparable best friends at a sanctuary in TN. Tarra even waited outside a building for a week as Bella healed from an injury.

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wge6 TIL Second Chance Coffee Co. in Illinois conducts FBI background checks to make sure those seeking employment with the company have actually been to prison because the company only hires ex-inmates.
VBWjG Today I learned that the comedy folk band 'The Lancashire Hotpots' were forced to change the title of their song "The Beer Olympics" due to copyright claims by the IOC. They then renamed the song "The Beer International Non-Profit, Non-Governmental Sporting Quad Yearly Event."
Ege0W TIL: Africa, at 30,500 km of Coastline, Has Less Than Half of the EU’s 68,000 km Despite Being Three Times Larger
4kX5w TIL the story of Larry Miller. A gang member who murdered an opposing gang member and spent most of his teens and 20s incarcerated who went on to become president of the Portland Trailblazers and president of the Jordan brand for Nike.
oGVY TIL that city life is potentially diverging a population of raccoons down an alternate evolutionary path in comparison to their rural counterparts. City raccoons show higher intelligence and just a few decades of city life has changed raccoon populations more than the previous 40,000 years.