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TIL Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump. These behemoths are so "big boned" they can't make it off the ground.

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4vQ5 TIL in the early nineteenth century, the United States had a hundred and forty-four separate time zones
ADmp4 TIL Bruce Willis showed up to the audition for "Moonlighting" (which was the first step on his career) rocking a mohawk, and dressed in fatigues.
Zp7wG TIL about Jambo, a gorilla that protected a child who fell into his enclosure in 1986
GYxDQ TIL about the Werther-Effect, the emulation of another suicide that the person attempting suicide knows about either from local knowledge or due to accounts or depictions of the original suicide. Due to this, in Australia it's illegal for media to report suicide as a reason a person has passed.
epaYn TIL American English and Chinese use different strategies of politeness. If complimented, most Americans will agree with commenter and thank them to be polite but if complimented many Chinese will express it via rejecting the compliment and denigrating themselves to avoid appearing conceitful