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TIL about childlore which is the folk culture of children between the ages of about 6 and 15. As a branch of folklore it is concerned with activities learnt and passed on by children to other children.

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R71D4 TIL Kodak once made crayons
XEgyQ TIL of Slowworms and legless lizards. A category if reptiles which are not related to snakes and independently lost their limbs. They have a number of different features from snakes, such as more developed ears and eyes.
aNpZ TIL camels can drink 200L (53 US gal) of water in 3 minutes.
nJ5W TIL that many pirates in the early 1700’s in the Caribbean were escaped African slaves. By some accounts, 70 served with the famous Blackbeard
5YXoP TIL that in 1945 Walt Disney employed Salvador Dali to work on a short animation feature, that was stopped for lack of finances. 58 years later the project was revived and completed by Disney.