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TIL Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music

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eQwb TIL Ichiro Suzuki, baseball’s all-time hits leader, learned Spanish just for the purpose of trash talking opponents.
M7GZ7 TIL Louis XIV had an elephant at Versailles, a gift from Portugal's king in 1668. The animal became part of the Ménagerie, the palace's zoo, and was fed 80 pounds of bread, 12 pints of wine, and two buckets of soup daily. It is the only African elephant recorded in Europe between 1483 and 1862.
VwB TIL there is an elephant named Tarra who lost her best friend, a dog named Bella, to a band of coyotes. Finding the body, she moved her friend more than a mile from the scene, taking her back home.
D1K7J TIL: the tv series Flipper only ran for 3 seasons, but made 88 episodes.
yVkZM TIL the ‘70s fascination with truckers as anti-government modern cowboys started when an advertising executive invented C.W. McCall, a folksy trucker character, for a bread ad. He recorded country music using McCall as a stage name, and his #1 hit, “Convoy,” spawned a movie by the same name.