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TIL Marshall Field, the #11 richest American of all time (66 billion) coined the phrase “the customer is always right” and was the first to accept exchanges and openly display prices.

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VBgv0 TIL that African elephants can distinguish between human languages and can avoid those considered a threat
yVklM TIL On Dec 28, 2016, the day after Carrie Fisher’s death, her mother, Debbie Reynolds, had a stroke at the home of her son, Todd, where the family was planning Fisher’s funeral, she died later that day. Reynolds had said, “I want to be with Carrie” immediately before she had the stroke.
mxaVP TIL that according to the Health and Safety Executive, cows are the "most deadly" large animal in Britain
x6eJD TIL That the character who first said the phrase "fortune favours the bold" - Turnus, in the Aeneid, spends the rest of the story suffering military defeats before he's killed and heads to the underworld, miserable, at the end of the last book.
VMLXp TIL The dog who played Wishbone on the hit 1990s kids show of the same name was called "Soccer" and he was a veteran TV commercial star before appearing on the series. He lived from 1988-2001 and is buried on the Texas ranch where the show was filmed.