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TIL that “Extinct” Pygmy Elephants Have Been Found Living on Borneo

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JNr8 TIL Mr T stopped wearing his gold chains after Hurricane Katrina as he felt it would be insensitive to people who have lost their possessions.
0wOnA TIL The infamous scene, in Mel Gibson's film "the Patriot" depicting the herding noncombatant men, women and children into a church, and setting it on fire is based on the SS massacre of French villagers in Oradour-Sur-Glane in 1944. Nothing like this ever happened in the American Revolution.
8aRPL TIL that singer Lorde has sound-to-color synesthesia, a unique condition where sound blends with sight to create certain colors. This greatly contributed to the creative process on "Melodrama", where she wrote music to the "violets and blues" that appear on the album's cover
GYQd5 TIL about Rishi Sharma, who is going around interviewing every WW2 vet he can before they all die.
MoK0 TIL that if you can prove your lineage to Italian Citizenship, the citizenship is passed on to you.