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TIL that elephants can purr

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wodb8 TIL that the creator of Kwanzaa kidnapped and tortured 2 black women by whipping them with an electrical cord, placing a hot soldering iron in their mouths, and putting one of their toes in a vise.
4koWa TIL about Jeep Ducking, or Duck Duck Jeep, which is about appreciating other people's Jeeps by placing a rubber duck on it
VMJPp TIL that, if it were an independent country, California would have the fifth-largest economy in the world.
ZBVY TIL that in 19th-century America, the belief that sausages were usually made out of dog meat was so widespread that they started to be called “hot dogs”
lovE7 TIL Spallanzani, an Italian Catholic priest and biologist was one of the first to disprove abiogenesis (life from non-life) by using tight fitted pants on male frogs which lead to failure to copulate and thus failure to reproduce.