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TIL an eggcorn is the alteration of a phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements, creating a new phrase having a different meaning from the original but which still makes sense and is plausible when used in the same context.

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P1NXL TIL that the Sacramento Kings are the oldest franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Founded in 1923 as the Rochester Seagrams, it predates the foundation of the NBA by 26 years.
0wLby TIL experts believe that the elephants that live in Sri Lanka are the progeny of elephants that swam across from Southern India across the sea in search of food and water.
N7751 TIL that GE chose to put the Fukushima reactor closer to the sea, knew of inherent design flaws for decades, and may be liable for damages in court.
XEa8R TIL the US police once fire bombed a black neighborhood by dropping explosives from a chopper, burning down 61 houses in Philadelphia
yVe7v TIL that after scientists sequenced the genome of a tiger they found that it shares 95.6% of its DNA with the domestic cat, from which it diverged 10.8 million years ago.