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TIL that elephants can dance and move their heads to beats

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awYny TIL Because the number 8 is considered very lucky in Chinese culture, a Chinese man spent the equivalent of 1 millions RMB to secure a license plate reading '88888' in the hope of increasing his luck, to get pulled over 8 times by cops who thought the plate was a fake.
78lEr TIL Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart went on a spacewalk and was told to stay there and don't move when a movie camera jammed. In those five minutes, he saw the Earth and experienced a moment filled with existential questions
PYaXE TIL of ‘Sin Eaters’ whose job it was to “eat” the sins of a deceased person. The position only paid a couple dollars per sin eating and it usually called for the individual to eat a piece of bread that had been sitting on the dead person’s chest or lips.
5Y51B TIL in 2009, Germans bought more copies of “Farming Simulator” than of GTA4.
nW5e7 TIL when future US President James Buchanan was a Senator, he bought his whiskey weekly in 10-gallon quantities from well-known whiskey merchant Jacob Baer in Washington, D.C. Buchanan considered Baer's whiskey to be "finer than the best Monongahela."