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TIL Samuel L. Jackson got rid of his stutter by developing an affinity for the word “motherfucker”

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wmLJ TIL Ping Pong is the name of a company that sells table tennis equipment whereas table tennis is the name of the sport.
5YwZk TIL of king penguin, Lala who was injured and nursed back to health in Japan. He didn't leave so the family adopted him and lived in a air-conditioned room. He walked around the neighborhood and got himself fishes from the store. He lived with the family for 10 years before dying of old age in 1996.
6Elpl TIL elephants rarely get cancer, thanks to an extra cancer-fighting gene called P53. This gene recognizes dangerous cells and killing them before they become cancerous.
LkQMd TIL of the "Niihau Incident". After a Japanese Pilot crashed on a remote Hawaiian Island following Pearl Harbor, three Japanese Americans tried to help him escape, taking locals hostage and shooting at one. Their actions may have influenced the decision to intern Japanese Americans during WWII.
GA7NQ TIL the human genome is about 800 MB, but the unique portions which vary between people can be compressed to only 4 MB.