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TIL that elephants were once used as executioners in South and Southeast Asia. In India, rogue elephants were trained to carry out executions by crushing, dismembering, or torturing victims with their immense power.

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QJwlM TIL that Japan converts footsteps into renewable energy in Tokyo train stations and use it to power billboards around the city, using special floor boards that turn vibration into energy.
XENJ8 TIL that the Icelandic government banned the stationing of black American soldiers in Iceland during the Cold War so as to "protect Icelandic women and preserve a homogenous national body". After pressure from the US military, the ban was eventually lifted in the late 1960s.
1aY54 TIL that when David Bowie says "get back on it" on The Jean Genie, he's talking to the bass player who has just started playing the chorus one bar too soon. He liked it, so it stayed in the song.
epgwL TIL Nicolas Cage Was Once Bailed Out Of Jail By Dog The Bounty Hunter
GYP8J TIL Casey Kasem declined to reprise his role as Shaggy in "Scooby Doo on Zombie Island" because he had recently gone vegan and wanted that reflected in the character, which was not upheld. This resulted in Billy West's one and only credit for portraying Shaggy.