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TIL that there was an urban legend about a Japan baseball team that had 18-year losing streak because in the 80's they threw the statue of Colonel Sanders into the river.

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nBxW TIL in the add-on ‘Lonesome Road’ for the game 'Fallout: New Vegas’ there’s a fossilized dog statue that you can pick up named “Seymour”. It’s an Easter Egg to Fry’s dog of the episode 'Jurassic Bark’ in Futurama.
x6kPD TIL of The Beetle (1897), a novel about a shapeshifter in London. It was so popular upon release, that it sold six times as many copies as Dracula.
MYrm Today i learned, there is a river in china so polluted it has turned red.
4kpvb TIL that term fin de siècle, meaning end of century referenced the anxiety people felt, about moving into the twentieth century from the 19th, and is expressed in such works as Dracula.
rxNM TIL That elephants cry out of emotion, and in 2013 a baby elephant cried for 5 hours after being rejected by his mother twice.