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TIL learned is not a typo, it is the american spelling for learnt

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gMGd8 TIL that Burying the dead has been illegal in San Francisco since 1901. Because space was limited and real estate at a premium even back then, the city outlawed burials and moved all cemeteries to neighboring Colma, CA.
jMOj TIL President LBJ Owned an Amphibious Car, the Amphicar, and used it to scare guests by driving them into his lake screaming about brake failure
Br4wy TIL Nim Chimpsky was a chimpanzee raised like a human child by a surrogate family as part of a controversial project on animal language acquisition. During his lifetime, Nim learned over 125 signs, including "stone smoke time now" which Nim used when he wanted to smoke marijuana.
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