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TIL that South Africans call Traffic Lights “Robots”.

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oBjGA TIL that California is named after a mythological queen who ruled over an island nation of black warrior women and fought with an army of trained griffins.
Yp8j7 TIL the world record for stacking 10 toilet paper rolls with one hand is 5.45 seconds.
vZ68 TIL Sperm whales hunt upside down toward the bottom of the ocean. They look back up and locate squid by their silhouettes against the light from the surface.
85Ra TIL in 1985, John Fogerty of CCR was sued for sounding like himself in his solo music. The cost: $1.1 million in legal fees. He pushed it to the Supreme Court to fight the double standard of defendants not being awarded the fees & won, setting a precedent that defends artists from corporate sabotage
EgvDX TIL of Pattie Boyd, who is an English model and photographer, who was the inspiration for the songs Something, Layla, Bell Bottom Blues , and Wonderful Tonight. She was the exwife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton respectively.