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TIL after Tony Hawk complained about how bad the prototype skateboard emoji looked, he was invited to help redesign it

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xgZw TIL there is a square colloquially known as Chop Chop Square in Saudi Arabia. The square has built in drains for the executions they have every Friday after prayer.
gwO8 TIL Redwoods grow taller than any other tree because their leaves are able to absorb water directly from the air eliminating the need to transport water from their roots.
x68w5 TIL Mozart's middle name is not Amadeus. It's a latinized version of his real middle name Theophilus and probably facetious.
XEkvP TIL Daniel Craig credited the Austin Powers films with the serious tone of modern Bond films saying that they made it "impossible to do the gags" and "we had to destroy the myth because Mike Myers fucked us."
oLGo TIL of the Ashley Treatment. A hormonal and sometimes surgical way to keep a cognitively and physically impaired individual the size of a child for ease of care.