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TIL The Segway was #1 on Time’s worst inventions of all time

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NXZMJ TIL Kelly, a dolphin, was rewarded with fish by her trainers for bringing them litter and dead gulls to clean her pool. She began hiding fish under a rock in her pool and used them to lure gulls, which she then brought to her trainers to receive more fish. She even taught her calf the same strategy.
8aWBX TIL Joni Mitchell recorded an album called "Hejira," written on a car trip from Maine to Los Angeles. "Hejira" is also the word for Mohammed's journey from Mecca to Medina.
DQwQY TIL that the Bee Movie doesn’t have “The” in the title and is just “Bee Movie”
6EmMJ TIL that the Turkish word for a turkey bird means "India," the Hindi word means "Turkey," the Portuguese word means "Peru," Khmer and Scottish Gaelic call it a "French chicken," Malay calls it a "Dutch chicken," and various dialects of Arabic call it a Roman, Greek, or Ethiopian chicken.
Z8JKa TIL that police officers tap the rear of your vehicle with their hand when performing a traffic stop so that if anything were to happen to the officer during the encounter, there would be physical evidence of them coming into contact with your vehicle via fingerprints.