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TIL that from the 1200s to 1835, the Tower of London housed a menagerie of exotic wild animals

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R8kj TIL that if the High Court in New Delhi, India goes through its cases at a rate of 4 minutes and 55 seconds per case, it will finish its backlog in 466 years.
5VxWn Today I Learned Schweppes, the Oldest Soft Drinks Company on the World, was the Official Drink of the Great Exhibition of 1851, Held at the Crystal Palace, in Hyde Park, London.
E0NP TIL Texas oil tycoon Jim West used to throw handfuls of silver dollars around just to see people scramble for them.
WbbL TIL it’s illegal to “pursue, shoot, shoot at, poison, wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, molest or disturb” a bald eagle in the US
QJAeL TIL Abraham Lincoln was self-educated, having received a total of less than 12 months of formal education. Lincoln described his education as “defective” and never attended college. He was an avid reader, however, who maintained a lifelong interest in learning.