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TIL the Dick's motto means "Yet my hope is unbroken"

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l7g8B TIL that Dion Dublin, a former English professional footballer, is also an amateur percussionist, and invented a percussion instrument called "The Dube"
7JZb TIL that Kanzi, a male bonobo, once snapped twigs for a fire, lit them with matches, and toasted marshmallows on a stick. He is also an accomplished stone tool maker and can flake cutting knives. He can play and understand how to beat a game of Pac-Man, too.
d8W6d TIL about the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany, which was sunk in the Gulf of Mexico. It's now known as the Great Carrier Reef.
NonN TIL that in 1915, the Washington Post made one of the most infamous typos in newspaper history by misspelling ‘entertaining’ as 'entering’ while covering one of Woodrow Wilson’s dates with his fiancée: “Rather than paying attention to the play, the President spent the evening entering Mrs. Galt.”
P1YdE TIL that the consumption of soil in sub-Saharan Africa is common, primarily amongst pregnant women (ranging from 30 to 80% depending on the country). "The soil is mostly air dried, but can also be baked, smoked, salted, or mixed with herbs or water" and the soil from termite mounds isn't sour.