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TIL Rasputin's Autopsy Revealed No Signs of Poisoning, Drowning, or Genital Mutilation... Just Three Fatal Bullet Wounds

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e0W0g TIL that working memory operates phonologically which helps Chinese speaking people to remember more digits than English speakers because Chinese number words are all single syllables whereas words in English aren’t.
Vn8Q TIL there is a mile-long zipline in Hoonah, Alaska, that starts 1,300ft above sea level and reaches speeds of up to 60mph.
4jb TIL An elephant can use it’s penis as a “fifth leg” to prop itself up, swat flies, and even scratch itches.
mxBDE TIL That my country Canada interred over 90% of Japanese Canadians residing in British Columbia during WWII. The majority of these 22,000 people were Canadian by birth. Measures were paid for in part by seizure and sale of the property of those interred and were not lifted until 1949.
ANOQB TIL: The villains in the first Sherlock Holmes (1887) story were a group of Mormons