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TIL that none of the actors portraying the Jamaican bobsled team in the movie ‘Cool Runnings’ were originally from Jamaica! ????????

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QJ5WX Today I learned the African Golden Jackal, the animal upon which the ancient Egyptian god Anubis is thought to be based, was reclassified as a wolf in 2015.
KYw89 TIL about 11 year old Herman Lehmann, the son of German immigrants, who was captured by the Apaches in central Texas and lived with them for 6 years. He later went on to kill an Apache medicine man to avenge the death of his chief and master and took asylum with the Comanches.
BrQMb TIL of Sir Francis Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin. He invented fingerprint analysis, weather maps, the concept of mathematical correlation, the phrase “nature versus nurture,” and psychometry—the measuring of intellect (IQ tests).
e665 TIL for upon their death, survivors of the attack on the USS Arizona during Pearl Harbor may have their ashes placed within the ship, among their fallen comrades.
N7NeN TIL that coppicing -- cutting a deciduous tree to the ground when it is dormant -- produces multiple stems growing out of the main trunk. This method of pruning allows the continual harvest of wood from the same tree for centuries.