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TIL on 2016, Murray Pringle managed to obtain the Pringle baronetcy over cousin Simon after DNA testing proved Simon's grandfather wasn't the biological son of Sir Norman Pringle, 8th Baronet but was utterly unrelated to the clan

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PZrL TIL there is a creek in Wyoming that splits and flows to both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is thought that cutthroat trout used this passage to cross the Continental Divide.
R5oB7 TIL about San Miguel de Gualdape, a short-lived Spanish colony founded in 1526 somewhere in modern South Carolina or Georgia. The location had the first enslaved Africans in the modern United States, and also the first slave revolt. The fates of the Africans is lost to history.
Y4er TIL that newborn ducks will take on the characteristics of the first animal they see. If the first animal they see is a human, then they will think they’re human and grow up thinking they’re human. This is called “imprinting” and it’s the natural instinct to follow the first thing they see.
gM7lb TIL that the musical Cats is so popular in Japan, that it has been running since 1983. It caused a “musical boom” and brought other Broadway musicals to Japan. There is a purpose-built CATS theatre in Tokyo. The production has played over 10,000 performances to over 10 million audience members.
awrx0 TIL that in the early 1900's, avocados were known as "alligator pears." In attempt to make the fruit (yes, they are fruits) more marketable to the American consumer, they were re-named avocado which derives from the Aztec word for testicle.