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TIL Elephants should not carry weight on their backs. Their spines have bony protrusions that make bearing weight painful and damaging.

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RVX9 TIL that in 1922 when scientist Niels Bohr won the Nobel Prize he was given a house by Carlsberg brewery. The house was located next to the brewery and it had a direct pipeline to the brewery so that Bohr had free beer on tap whenever he wanted.
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