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TIL The word 'cactuses' is the English plural to cactus and 'cacti' is the Latin plural. Dictionaries list both and neither are right or wrong.

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rgKe TIL During WW2 Joe Medicine Crow, a native American, completed all four feats required to be a war chief: touching an enemy without killing him, taking an enemy’s weapon, leading a war party and stealing 50 horses from the SS, singing a Crow honour song as he rode away.
yxvM TIL that Terry Jones of Monty Python is credited with writing the movie “Labyrinth”, despite the script having been re-written several times
9YjVr TIL the first vending machine to sell live crabs debuted in 2010 in a train station in Nanjing. The machine sells about 200 live crabs a day, with prices from $2 to $7. A sign next to the machine states each crab will come out alive, offering refund of three live crabs for every dead one to pop out.
VAyQ TIL, Tim Storms holds the record for the lowest bass voice at G-7 or .189Hz, which the human ear cannot even detect.
RJJ9 TIL The Last VCRS were produced in July of 2016