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TIL: The Hawaiian alphabet only has twelve letters: a,e,i,o,u,h,k,l,m,n,p,w

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wxY TIL in 1916, an elephant named Mary was hanged in TN for the murder of her trainer.
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WkA1B TIL the founder of Hyundai was born to an impoverished family of peasants in what is now North Korea. In 1998, he sent 1001 cows to his hometown in North Korea as a repayment 1000 times over for a cow that he stole in the early 1930s to afford his train ticket to Seoul and escape from poverty.
l6Xr TIL Judit Polgár, the strongest female chess player of all time, was part of an education experiment carried out by their father László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early age
7ryNP TIL in the book "Gulliver's Travels", the laputans, scientists who live on a magnetically levitating island, discovered two moons of Mars. This was 150 years before we actually discovered Mars had moons.