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TIL that disabled people in the UK can get a universal key which works with disabled toilets around the whole of the UK (around 9,000+ toilets)

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xdRo TIL that people from different languages arrange pictures of chronological events differently (English speakers from left to right, Hebrew from right to left), and that the Kuuk Thaayorre will arrange them from east to west regardless of the direction they face in the room.
XQXk TIL An Elephant, Kosik, can speak 5 words in Korean, “sit, no, yes and lie down.” He creates the words by putting his trunk in his mouth and vibrating it. He is the only elephant scientifically proven to speak human words.
9YrlD TIL that the great age of Caribbean piracy began in 1522 when French corsair Jean Fleury captured two Spanish ships on their way back to Spain from the new world, plundering more than $30 million worth of Aztec gold.
JYmDB TIL opossums have pouches not unlike a kangaroo's, and can feed on average a litter of 13 infants within it