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TIL Sonic Rush (2005) samples a Malcolm X speech in its final boss music

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4kKXb TIL: a man named Ranald MacDonald was the first native English speaker to teach the English language in Japan. Today, statues commemorate Ronald McDonald all throughout Japan.
VdrD TIL that in 1860s, four white students at Phillips Exeter Academy confronted their headmaster and demanded that he kick out the black students - his response was “The colored student will stay, you can do as you please.”
jN6OQ TIL that spiders can fly for miles and have been found 2.5 miles above earth surface.
p8a7b TIL while waiting for his audition for 'The Office', John Krasinski was telling someone about how he was worried the producers were going to screw the show up because of how great the British version is. The person he was talking to was Greg Daniels, the shows executive producer.
E11v7 TIL India Has a Spa for Elephants; Elephant Camp at Punnathoor Cotta in Kerala is spread across 11.5 acres of land and houses 58 elephants – largest number of elephants in a very small stretch of land