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TIL that Elephants have been known to mimic human speech

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9w5km TIL that Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939. The nomination was intended only as a "satirical criticism" on the nomination of Neville Chamberlain and was quickly retracted.
Y7gA TIL that the Japanese enslaved as many as 410,000 “comfort women” from Korea, China, and Southeast Asia to serve as prostitutes and raise the spirits of the Japanese soldiers. Approximately three quarters of them died and most survivors were left infertile.
j6JyM TIL: A sex toy maker agreed to pay customers up to C$10,000 each for selling a “smart vibrator,” which tracked owners’ use without their knowledge. Two hackers had demonstrated the company was collecting information about users, including device temperature and vibration intensity.
168DP TIL that ELO, the rating system used in chess and esports is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American Physics Professor
XEJjk TIL the U.S. government used to buy the dairy industry’s excess cheese and butter in order to maintain the industry as a vital national resource. At its peak in 1983, the stockpile of excess milk fat, stored in cool caves in Missouri, grew to a value of more than $4 billion.