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TIL elephants can hear clouds

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mxvAv TIL mob informant Henry Hill - subject of the movie "Goodfellas" - on the first day of his new identity in Witness Protection, took his family to dinner at a Godfather's Pizza franchise as a joke.
99mQ TIL the Hawaiian Pizza was invented in Canada, and is the most popular pizza in Australia, accounting for 15% of pizza sales.
1gRr TIL the Tomb of the Unknowns’ sentinels will confront people who are disrespectful.
7Eox TIL that there is a classified airline called “Janet” that operates out of Las Vegas’ McCarran Airport which transports contractors and government workers to and from the Nevada National Security Site (Area 51).
vPlAx TIL that although Motorhead frontman Lemmy was an avid gambler, he preferred slot machines. However, when writing the song “Ace of Spades,” he realized that he couldn’t make a song about spinning wheels with pictures of fruit on them, so he sang about cards and dice instead.