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TIL injuries from opening food packages hospitalize over 60,000 people a year

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6EBXl TIL The opening lyrics from the Lion King’s ‘Circle of Life’ are sung in the language of the Zulu, an ethnic group of Southern Africa. It translates to “There comes a lion. Oh yes, it’s a lion.”
6Ed1m We still don’t understand why we see the particular images we do but don't worry, those weird patterns you see with your eyes closed are real.
QLL9 TIL that during one of his innumerable Presidential affairs, John F. Kennedy tore a groin muscle and had to wear a stiff shoulder-to-groin brace that prevented the reflexive ducking which might have saved him from the second, fatal, assassin’s bullet. (PDF: par 3 pg 5)
8lpX TIL that when Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, was asked where gorillas go after death, she responded by signing “Comfortable hole, bye.”
XE60X TIL that the ethnic Samaritans of the Bible still exist in modern-day Israel. They number about 820 people and still practice a distinctly ancient form of Judaism.