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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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WkybN TIL there is a grave in County Kerry in ireland that is the supposed burial ground of an Ancient Egyptian princess called Scotia, who led settlers named ‘The Scots’ (After the princess) to scotland after whom scotland is now supposedly named.
mxm0O TIL A feral pig ransacked a campsite and drank at least 18 cans of beer before getting into an altercation with a cow in Australia.
QnLk TIL More than half of all African-American children live in single-parent homes
JOGv TIL that a man who was kept in a state mental hospital against his will for 15 years sued the state for loss of liberty. His case went all the way to the Supreme Court and marked the beginning of deinstitutionalization of mental asylums in the U.S.
VM6ED TIL: The US Military Secretly Sprayed Radioactive Materials On Blacks In St. Louis