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TIL that alligators can use tools
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TIL that during Dean Smith's tenure as head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels, 96.6% of his players received their degrees and he also helped pioneer desegregation by recruiting their first black scholarship player, Charlie Scott.
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TIL in the 1910s and 20s a young man who dressed fashionably to attract women but didn’t have much else going for him was called a “jellybean”
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TIL that the longest unbroken alliance in world history is between England and Portugal. It has lasted since 1386, and still stands today.
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TIL that in 2000 Nestlé chairman and former CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe stated that “access to water should not be a public right.” While that statement was recanted, Nestlé continues to take control of aquifers and bottle their water for profit.
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TIL about the massive Irish Elk which had antlers up to 3.65m (12ft) wide and they existed alongside humans up to about 7,500 years ago.