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TIL that Nintendo tried to buy the rights to the Harry Potter series from JK Rowling

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VB6ap TIL a South African hunter led an expedition in Zimbabwe where they encountered a charging herd of breeding elephants he shot at the elephants, and one of the elephants lifted him with its trunk. Another hunter shot the elephant, causing it to collapse on Botha, crushing him to death.
rWB1 TIL: Bob Young, a 1936 Olympian who ran with Jesse Owens, gave Adolf Hitler the finger
ANawg TIL The longest recreational trail in North America, and the world, is not the Appalachian or Pacific Coast Trail, it is the The Trans Canada Trail. It is 15,000 miles long and it stretches from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans.
VdoD TIL Dr Seuss’ name rhymes with ‘Voice’ not 'Zeus’
rRbaM TIL that carpal tunnel syndrome is likely genetic, and there's very little evidence that it's linked to overuse