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TIL that Prince Harry owns an Olympic racehorse named Usain Colt

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Ypr7d TIL orchids are named after the greek word for testes (orchis) due to the shape of their tubers
VMNLG TIL most of the Total War franchise's music was composed by Jeff Van Dyck. His wife Angela van Dyck even features in some of Rome Total War's songs like Forever, which plays during the credits and Angela also wrote the lyrics for the song Divinitus, written in quasi-Latin
KaY4 TIL that in South Korea babies are considered 1 year old from the day they were born and then get 1 year older on New Year’s Day. There are calculators to convert international age into Korean age and vice versa.
mxRgy TIL that the Unicorn is the National Animal of Scotland.
9Y79r TIL the upper atmosphere of Saturn’s (and other gas giants presumably) poles are heated by the massive Auroras happening there!