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TIL that Hound Dog was not originally written for Elvis Presley

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jNbwa TIL that when you fall into cold water you produce an involuntary 'gasp' response and inhalation of water due to a response called Cold Water Shock that greatly increases your chance of drowning
44lb TIL that the Nazis were willing to deport all Jews to Madagascar instead of killing them; Hitler even signed off on this in 1938. However, they lacked a method of transportation, and the result was the Holocaust.
6EeOY TIL Norway introduced salmon sushi to Japan.
Lykr TIL Icelanders can easily read old norse, dead language that was spoken in scandinavia 1000 years ago because written Icelandic has changed so little.
D16EJ TIL of Jerome Motto, who was an American psychiatrist and conducted the first suicide prevention intervention that reduced deaths by suicide.