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TIL that "Elefantenrennen" (elephant racing) is the German word for one truck passing another truck

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mXE TIL that Douglas Adams, author of “The Hitchhikers Guide…” series, only told one other person his secret for choosing the number “42” as the “Ultimate Answer.” That other person is Stephen Fry, who says he’ll take that secret to the grave.
jNWeX TIL learned IBM had to change the name of its dominant chess computer Deep Thought to Deep Blue after people started calling it Deep Throat
b8k4 TIL “Deep Blue”, one of the largest great white sharks ever filmed, is estimated to be 50 years old… and was (at the time) pregnant!
PL5E TIL of a man who would inject himself with snake venom in an effort to build up an immunity. He lived to be 100, survived 172 snakebites, and donated his blood to snakebite victims.
b6PyE TIL That Puppet’s Theme from FNAF 2 was sampled a Clock Toy from the very first episode of Baby Einstein (1997)