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TIL - The Chinese government has a nationwide surveillance system that they ACTUALLY NAMED Skynet

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7rREb TIL The Horse's Head in the Godfather Scene was Real. Francis Ford Coppola Didn't Like the Mock-Up, So His Scouts Found a Horse Ready for Slaughter at a Dog-Food Plant in New Jersey.
OGJ94 TIL that African elephants have been known to bury or assist humans who are dead, sleeping, or injured. A woman once fell asleep under a tree and woke up to find an elephant gently touching her. As more elephants arrived, they covered her with branches. The next morning, she was found unharmed.
xVW10 TIL Blue and Yellow Mud Wasps aka Mud Daubers are not aggressive towards humans and actually function as pollinators and control spider populations, such as the Black Widow.
l7GmB TIL “Jingle Bells” was originally written to be a Thanksgiving song.
v1lDr TIL About the bulwar lytton bad fiction contest, a contest for cursed comments