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TIL Ducks should be fed frozen peas instead of bread.

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jNbda TIL Danny Elfman of Oingo Boingo fame, who also composed the themes for many Hollywood hits like Back To School, Beetlejuice, Batman, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Men in Black, & Edward Scissorhands, was rejected from his elementary school orchestra "for having no propensity for music."
EYnd TIL that the Shortfin Mako Shark, the world’s fastest shark, can leap approximate 30 feet high or higher in the air.
xV6xo TIL the caduceus symbol mistakenly used by many American medical companies is actually associated with thievery and commerce, the true medical symbol is the similar looking Rod of Asclepius.
JY6X1 TIL: The graphics company Nvidia is named after the Latin ‘invidia’, which means 'envy’. This is also the reason why they use the color green, as in “green with envy”.
jNokv TIL about Coxey's Army. It was the first popular protest march on Washington. Composed of unemployed workers from the United States, the protesters petitioned for government jobs in 1894, the second year of a four-year economic depression that was the worst in United States history to that time.