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TIL Baby elephants suck their trunks just like how babies suck their thumbs

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xOV7 TIL to get Greeks to gain an interest in potatoes, a large shipment of potatoes was left on the docks of Nafplio under guard. The guards were ordered to turn a blind eye to theft and all of the potatoes were stolen. The plan succeeded.
8alBG TIL That while Pattie Boyd was married to George Harrison and sleeping with Eric Clapton, the two musicians fought for her love with a formal guitar duel that lasted over 2 hours. Clapton won.
9w5LM TIL of the Gunnbjörn's skerries. A group of small islands roughly halfway between Greenland and Iceland, they were colonized by Norse settlers, with a successful colony of 18 farms by 1391. By 1456, they reportedly "completely burned up" and disappeared, presumably destroyed in a volcanic event.
4OoR TIL when doctors recommended Einstein surgery he refused surgery, saying: “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”
AD7r4 TIL that Pat Morita (Mr. Miyagi) spent his first 9 years of his life in a hospital and when he was finally well enough to leave, was sent to a Japanese internment camp in Arizona.