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TIL the British English spelling of the word "curb" is "kerb"

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e4DD TIL that reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone changed the entire geography of the park: as elk were displaced, saplings that would have been eaten by elk were spared, riverbank erosion was brought under control, and streams and rivers shifted their courses.
Ypv47 TIL 442nd Infantry Regiment which comprised of 2nd Gen Japanese Americans is the most decorated unit in US military history.
j0Qv TIL that in 2015, the authorities of the Westfjords region of Iceland have repealed a 400-year-old law that dictated that any Basque people found in the region could be legally killed on the spot
6yo8 TIL the lobster chowder given to the cast and crew of Titanic on the last night of filming was drugged with PCP (Angel dust)
neLo9 TIL sandollars are the skeletons of flattened sea urchins