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TIL that a large pride of Lions native to the Savute area of Botswana specialize in hunting adult elephants

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wM7M TIL that the Vikings were considered overly concerned with cleanliness for bathing once a week.
W7v6d TIL that Jean-Jacques Rousseau developed a boustrophedon musical notation. This required the writer to write the second staff from right to left, then the one after from left to right, etc. Thus the musician avoided jumping a staff while reading.
e05dJ TIL the stories of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad were not in the original 1001 Arabian Nights, but are believed to have been added by the French explorer Antoine Galland, who heard them from various sources in Europe and implemented the stories into new translations of the Nights.
D1xmp TIL of the Contranym, which is a word that has two contradicting definitions. Ex. Shelled means both having a shell and stripped of a shell
oWPK TIL Citizens of the UK must pay a yearly license fee to own TV sets receiving live TV broadcasts at £145.50 for color and £49.00 for black and white.