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TIL Motown founder Berry Gordy is a second cousin to former President Jimmy Carter

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NpKN TIL An elephant’s digestive system produces enough methane gas each day to propel an automobile twenty miles.
YpeMr TIL: Street pigeons (also known as feral pigeons) are descended from domesticated pigeons, not wild ones.
rR4ld TIL Costa Rica is an uninterrupted democracy since 1948, has no army, is the 12th-happiest country in the world and produces 98% of its electricity from renewable sources.
boR7 TIL Calvin Coolidge was so unknown as Vice President that when Major League Baseball sent him complimentary tickets they misspelled his name.
AwEw TIL that strippers often perform at Taiwanese temples. Offerings to the gods aren’t limited to food and money, people figure that the gods like sexy women as much as the rest of us.