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TIL Elvis Presley only ever failed one class, music.
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TIL in 1933 six thousand people were deported to an island in the Soviet Union and left with only flour to eat and no shelter. Guards would hunt people like animals, deliberately sink ships full of people and cannibalism became common.
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TIL NBC executives hated the script for the Seinfeld episode, 'The Chinese Restaurant', and only agreed to allow it to be filmed after co-creator Larry David threatened to quit. It is now considered a ground-breaking episode of TV, and the best example of Seinfeld's 'show about nothing' premise
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TIL:A Kenyan man successfully killed a lion with his bare hands only to be killed moments later by a pack of hyenas.
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TIL that this is how American school children addressed the flag during the pledge until 1942, when it was changed to the hand over the heart.
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TIL that there are bees that are solitary, are easy to farm to use as pollinators and rarely sting (and even if they do is not painful).