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TIL that "Harambee" is the official motto of Kenya

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x6485 TIL that in 1996 a man named Blair Adams withdrew most of his money and fled Canada after allegedly telling friends someone was trying to kill him. He was found murdered six days later, in a parking lot 2150 miles away. His murder remains unsolved.
LkerZ TIL that the Latin word for left hand is "sinister". This prejudice against left-handed people eventually made the word sinister mean evil and threatening.
daMr TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien created the words “dwarvish” and “dwarves”, countering the spelling at the time of the books publication which was “dwarfish” and “dwarfs”, and many dictionaries now consider this the proper way to spell the words.
OolJY TIL: Minesweeper's theme was so controversial in some countries that Microsoft was forced to replace the mines with flowers in some locations and rebrand it as "Flower Garden". Link
NR6N TIL of the only non-human to ask an existential question (What colour am I ?) - an African grey parrot.