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

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X0pQj TIL that actor Kiefer Sutherland threatened to not reprise the role of Doc Scurlock in the movie Young Guns 2 unless he was given a dramatic death scene in the movie, which was reluctantly granted. The historical Doc Scurlock actually died peacefully at the age of 80.
ne6dP TIL In 1927 Santa Clause was officially given a pilots license and airway maps from the Department of Commerce
7rooX TIL that in 2015 Tommie Woodward, a 28 year old Texan ignored a large sign that said "No Swimming Alligators" and instead yelled out "f--- the alligators" and jumped in the lake. He was mauled to death almost instantly
6EVe7 TIL that the length of a music single was determined by the weight-driven pulley system on a 1920's recording machine called the Scully Lathe. The pulley allowed approximately three and a half minutes to record before a 100lb weight hit the floor, thus determining the length of a single to this day.
rMBx TIL A “billion” in England was defined as a million million (1,000,000,000,000) up until 1974.