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TIL The English Horn is French, and the French Horn is German

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nW1X9 TIL in 1950, a baby elephant named Tuffi was put on a suspended monorail in Wuppertal Germany as a stunt. She panicked, burst out of a carriage window, and fell 12 metres into the river below. Tuffi survived the fall with only minor injuries and lived for another 39 years.
rw40 TIL wasps have complete voluntary control over the sex of their offspring.
4DKg TIL that one of the B-29s that escorted the Enola Gay into Japan was called ‘Necessary Evil’.
6EgLY TIL that MAS*H aired on BBC2 in the UK without a laugh track, as the creators of the show intended it to be seen, while CBS studio executives would not air the show in the US without one. Series creator Larry Gelbart later said: "I always thought it cheapened the show. The network got their way."
KVyw TIL astronaut Scott Kelly will become even younger than his twin elder brother (also an astronaut) Mark Kelly (born 6 minutes before Scott), by three milliseconds after the completion of his one year mission on the ISS