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TIL Bison are faster than horses!

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pG8G TIL the whoopee cushion was invented by a 14-year old Roman Emperor, who used it frequently on guests. He was assassinated by the time he was 18.
ZpG5a TIL of Bonin English, an English-based creole of the Bonin Islandssouth of Japan with strong Japanese influence, to the extent that it has been called a mixture of English and Japanese.
xVxOw TIL that Prince was supposed to sing the hook on Kendrick Lamar's "Complexion (A Zulu Love). Prince heard and loved the record, and the concept of the record got both of them talking until they realized they didn't record anything and they ran out of time in the studio.
xVwEo TIL that Steve Jobs had just been pruning apple trees in Oregon which led him to call his company Apple. “It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge off the word computer, ” Jobs said. “Plus, it would get us ahead of Atari in the phone book.”
ep56J TIL Salvator Mundi (Latin for 'Savior of the World'), by Leonardo da Vinci, the most expensive painting of all-time, was sold for $450m to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The painting hasn’t been on display since 2017 and since late 2020 it has been in storage in Saudi Arabia.