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TIL that Unicode uses elephants as a baseline comparison for cultural frequency when considering whether to add a new emoji

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d847Q TIL Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a parody spinoff of Daredevil. Their origins stemming from the same incident that blinded Matt Murdock.
R54Z9 TIL Oddjob is average height in the James Bond movie Goldfinger (even taller in the novel). The only reason he’s a dwarf in Goldeneye 64 is because the developers confused him with Nick Nack from The Man With the Golden Gun.
XljR TIL of Lauri Törni, a Finnish soldier that after fighting in the winter war against the USSR, he joined the SS and kept fighting until the end WW2. After WW2, he migrated to the US and joined the US Army, and died in combat in Vietnam in 1965 by which time he had earned high ranking U.S. awards.
oBoBW TIL the mosquitos they extracted the blood from to create the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park didn’t actually suck blood, negating the entire premise of the film
vP5v8 TIL: Potcake is breed of dog fed the caked remains of cooking pots. It's believed that the original Potcake derived from the Labrador, German Shepherd and Fox Terrier breeds.