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TIL that elephants walk on their tippy toes and have a padding under their heels similar to a person wearing high heels.

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R54Nj TIL in 1967 a man named Thomas Jolley fled the US to Canada and renounced his citizenship to avoid being drafted in the Vietnam War. A few months later he returned to the US and was ordered deported, but Canada refused to accept him back. He spent the rest of his life in the US as an illegal alien.
ADMDn TIL: A Man paralyzed from waist down made history by walking again using mind-controlled implant to power his legs
ewOJ TIL that a Singaporean pilot, Tsu Whey Ming, committed murder/suicide by intentionally crashing the 737-300 he was piloting, killing all 104 people on board, and that the Indonesian authorities covered up the report prompting the U.S. NTSB, in an unprecedented move, to publicly contradict them
GAewE TIL of no burp syndrome, a condition where the cricopharyngeus muscle doesn’t relax preventing air from leaving the stomach. It leads to bloating and flatulence and can be treated with botox.
bD8E TIL That U.S President John F. Kennedy read 600 words per minute, more than double the speed of an average person