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TIL that as part of their training, 18 month old circus elephants are chained together and made to stand still for 23 hours a day

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OoeB1 TIL that the first Native American to meet the Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock greeted them in English.
oPPr TIL that the universe is an estimated 1.4 x 10^27 meters wide. There was an attempt to make 1.0 x10^27 one “Hellameter.” So it could be said that the universe was “Hella meters wide.”
d89M9 TIL that Lambert Wilson, the actor who played The Merovingian, is also a singer
loLar TIL the movie Shrek is based on the 1990 children’s books Shrek! by William Steig. Steig also provided the illustrations for the book.
x6B9g TIL that Mozart wrote a song called "Lick me in the arse".