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TIL that “Amen” means “So be it.”

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kORw4 TIL that a baby elephant struck by a motorbike while crossing a road in Thailand survived after an off-duty rescue worker performed CPR on it. The man had worked in rescue for 26 years and performed dozens of CPR attempts on humans, but the elephant was the first victim he had ever managed to revive
jYN TIL that when the Spanish asked the Mayans what their land was named, they replied “Yucatán” which literally translates to “I don’t understand you.”
W7kL9 TIL that the remote, barren Norfolk Island was intended to be used as a penal colony for a penal colony; a place to send prisoners who had been transported to Australia and then committed serious crimes while there.
QbY6 TIL there exists a massive abandoned supercollider in Texas.
PWde TIL: Creationism’s monkey-typewriter argument was refuted by a 1980s computer program that randomly generated phrases while preserving the positions of individual letters. The computer wrote Hamlet in just 4.5 days.