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TIL elephants are afraid of bees!

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GApMJ TIL that former major league baseball player Ron LeFlore first played organized baseball in prison while serving a sentence for armed robbery. After being released, he played for 9 seasons and was largely known as a base stealer.
e0Mw4 TIL Words "Audio", "Video," and "Disco" mean "I hear", "I see", "I learn" in Latin
8ekMK TIL that Franc Roddam, director of The Who's film "Quadrophenia" from 1979 is the creator of world famous competitive cooking show "MasterChef". Roddam created the UK version of the reality show in 1990.
LQ6Lp TiL The Largest Mass Execution in U.S history was at the end of the Dakota War of 1862, where 38 Native Americans were hanged.
WkWg8 TIL during various historical periods, competing instrumentalists tried to produce a more "brilliant" sound, creating "pitch inflation". At the start of the 17th century, pitch levels became so high that singers had severe throat strain, and lutenists and viol players complained of snapped strings