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TIL If African elephants become extinct, the savannah will become woodland

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0d7Kp TIL The song "Yankee Doodle" was originally sung by the British during the Revolutionary War to mock Americans. "Yankee doodle dandy" meant an uncultured, effeminate, American. When the Americans began winning, they started singing the song themselves to mock the British.
N7Vdb TIL after WW2 the US government could not account for 7 German prisoners of war. The last of them, Georg Gärtner, surrendered himself on The Today Show in 1985
EgMZo TIL that octopuses have three hearts—two pump blood to the gills, while the third pumps it to the rest of the body. What's even crazier? The heart that pumps to the rest of the body actually stops beating when the octopus swims!
oBdLo TIL In 1973, Bruce Lee's kicks were so fast in "Enter the Dragon", they had to re-film it in slow-motion so it wouldn’t appear fake.
wLMR6 TIL that if Massachusetts were a country, its students would rank 9th in the world