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TIL Female Elephants Are Called Cows, and Their Babies Are Called Calves.

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7loM TIL that Steven Seagal once delayed production on a film because he was in his trailer reading a script. He emerged two hours later and told someone “I just read the greatest script I’ve ever read in my life”. When asked who wrote it, he responded, “I did”
oBkmW TIL of Jang Bogo. A Korean peasant who served in China, becoming an abolitionist, and in the 820s formed a powerful private navy of 10,000 men to attack slavers, leading to the Emperor ending slavery. The Nobility hated him and assassinated him when he tried to marry a princess.
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Y9RG TIL the clerk who approved Alexander Graham Bell’s patent over rival Elisha Gray did so after Bell helped him repay a loan to a friend (who happened to be Bell’s lawyer).
YM8G TIL On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.