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TIL Tarzan wasn’t raised by apes, but by a fictional species of ape-like beings who have their own language.

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rRXbW TIL In South Dakota, you can get a driver’s permit at age 14 with parental consent. Once you turn 16, you can get your license.
bYbN TIL Edgar Allen Poe wrote a novel in 1838 about a shipwreck where the survivors ate one of their own, Richard Parker. 46 years later, a yacht called the Mignonette sank, leaving 4 survivors. They, too ate one of the survivors, a cabin boy named Richard Parker.
yQydV TIL that the movie "Death Wish III" was changed to "Death Wish 3" because the Cannon Group conducted a survey and found that nearly half of the U.S. population could not read Roman numerals
WkxZd TIL a man hiking in Colorado scared off a mountain lion by yelling Seinfeld dialog at it
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