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TIL Congress tried to pass a “American Hippo bill” in 1910 to authorize the importation and release of hippopotamus into Louisiana to help solve the American meat crisis, described as “lake cow bacon”

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oOJR TIL Siri was supposed to be for Android and BlackBerry phones before Siri, Inc. was bought by Apple back in April of 2010
epaYn TIL American English and Chinese use different strategies of politeness. If complimented, most Americans will agree with commenter and thank them to be polite but if complimented many Chinese will express it via rejecting the compliment and denigrating themselves to avoid appearing conceitful
Z85DY TIL the original DickButt was handcrafted around 150B.C.-10A.D.
KDMG TIL In Kenya a turtle adopted a hippo that was abandoned after a tsunami.
0wAYy TIL that physicist Nikola Tesla once paid an overdue hotel bill with a box containing a working model of his ‘death beam‘, warning employees never to open it because of the danger. They hid the box & when it was discovered years later & opened, found to contain old (harmless) electrial parts.