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TIL Scotland has a national elephant polo team.

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wL9g1 TIL that Vlad Dracula was called Vlad the Impaler because when his country was invaded by Ottomans, he had hundreds of soldiers impaled by putting stakes through their rectum in a way that missed their vital organs and kept them living and writhing for days to make an example for incoming invaders
gdyy TIL female kangaroos conceive again a few days after giving birth but the new embryo enters a dormant state that lasts until the previous young leaves the pouch
VMxG TIL that a computer as powerful as the human brain would be able to perform about 38 thousand trillion operations per second and hold about 3,584 terabytes of memory.
XgDX TIL Pearl Jam sued Ticketmaster for creating a monopoly on ticket sales. Pearl Jam wanted to charge no more than $18.50 for tickets in ’94, with service fees of no more than $1.80. Ticketmaster balked, saying that it needed at least $2 in fees simply to cover its own costs.
loJaK TIL in Japanese department stores, the staff will offer to put a plastic cover on your shopping bag when it rains. All of the staff knows it is raining outside without looking is because of a special BGM played only when it rains.