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TIL that 21 of the 50 oldest living people are Japanese
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TIL that in Wuppertal, Germany in 1950, the circus elephant Tuffi broke through a window of a moving overhead railway and fell 12 metres down in a river, while on promotion tour for a circus. Luckily she survived with minor injuries.
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TIL the song 1985 isn't by Bowling for Soup. It was originally written and preformed by SR-71.
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TIL Oxpeckers, the small birds you see in photos perching on antelopes & wildebeests (Elephants shake them off usually), were once thought to help by eating illness-causing ticks. It was found that the birds open wounds wider and drink the blood of their hosts - they’re parasites themselves.
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TIL The ship used on The Love Boat was seized by Italian authorities to settle a debt.
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TIL that a French dessert pastry named "Nun's farts" exists