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TIL The penalty for killing an elephant in Sri Lanka is death

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waEW TIL Vic Mizzy died in 2009 at age 93: his heirs will collect royalties on the Adams Family theme until 2084, including every time it’s played at a sports event.
65bQ TIL A teacher’s gender affects learning: boys learn better from men and girls learn better from women
8abGG TIL Some historians consider the American Revolution to actually have been more of a civil war between pro-British and anti-British settlers.
Y7Lkv TIL Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, lost her virginity to her future husband, who at the time had a pregnant wife, at the cemetery at her mother's grave.
b9oJj Recently, while looking at the vibrant lights of Hong Kong through a bus window, I noticed for the eleven-millionth time those little dots and that black band running along the edge of the glass. “What are these?” I wondered. So when I got home, I called up a major automotive glass manufacturer to find out.