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TIL elephants call and respond to each other by name
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TIL the United States has a higher adult literacy rate than Europe and Japan despite its poor reputation in education
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TIL that in 1999, an aide to the Mayor of Washington DC was fired for using the word “niggardly”, a word that has nothing to do with the n-word
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TIL that the bodies on display in "Bodies: The Exhibition" were likely not donated voluntarily. They are believed to be the remains of executed prisoners.
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TIL that "gridiron" is actually a grill and not just a nickname for an (American) football field. I also learned that American football is also called gridiron football.
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TIL after Myers had completed providing the voice for Shrek, and after an rough cut of the film, he asked to re-record all of his lines in a Scottish accent. It was so good they took $4m worth of animation out and did it again.