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TIL that elephants have prehensile penises, meaning that they can use them to pick things up and perform other various tasks.

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ox07 TIL that “merci beaucoup” is commonly mispronounced and most tourists are saying “thank you, nice bum”
pYEL4 TIL in the Second Catiline Conspiracy: Cicero saved Rome's republic from a coup but had to go outside due process, leading to his exile. His exile was later lifted but his actions revealed the complete lack of confidence in the court system on which the New Republic of Sulla was allegedly based.
Brnwx TIL: Thanks to a 1665 idea of King Charles II (and to river-meandering), there's a cut-off 5-mile lobe of Kentucky that's not connected to any of Kentucky; it's all surrounded by other states (Missouri & Tennessee). Fewer than 20 people live in this "bubble" of KY ("Bubbleland" AKA "Kentucky Bend").
6EXxl TIL a Japanese twitter user had his account permanently suspended for making a death threat against a mosquito
dE0E TIL statues of Jews in obscene contact with a large sow are still on cathedrals all over Germany