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TIL Elephants skeletal structuring is not designed to carry weight on their backs, but rather weight from below. Many Elephants end up with deformed and broken backs as a result of years of long hours spent carrying tourists around.

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R7lP1 TIL about Greg Nemitz, a man which claimed onwnership about the asteroid 433 EROS in 1993 and then when NASA landed a probe on the same asteroid he sent a bill of 20 dollars to NASA about parking on his property.
OgdY TIL a civil rights group dedicated to ending the stereotypes about Italian-Americans was led by a mafia boss
rRpKo TIL, in an effort to set the world record for the longest drift, BMW used one M5 to refuel another M5 (5 times) by drifting alongside it
d60B TIL Al Sharpton led the public civil rights involvement of a rape case of Tawana Brawley in which 6 whites (including police officers) were accused of raping the young girl and putting her in a trash bag covered in feces. The jury later found the defendants innocent and the story fabricated.
G8wE TIL there is a programming language called Malbolge, specifically designed to be almost impossible to use. When it was created it was so difficult to understand that it took two years for the first Malbolge program to appear.