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TIL 90% of the world has been invaded by Britain at some point in history

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9Yd1Q TIL that there are some pubs in England that are over 1000 years old.
R6G7 TIL there used to be 8 ft. tall 300lb carnivorous flightless birds in North and South America known colloquially as Terror Birds
Z8jOp TIL that while young Robert E. Lee worked surveying the boundary between Ohio and Michigan, he jokingly referred in a letter to a snake he killed in a lighthouse as the lighthouse's keeper. Lee's biographer Douglas Southall Freeman misinterpreted this as an admission that Lee killed a human keeper.
yD9J TIL The top 3 highest paid persons on the Department of Defense payroll are the Football Coaches of the 3 Military Academies.
ybWJ TIL Ger Frits, a man from Amsterdam has organised the funerals of the 20 or so people who die completely alone each year. He places flowers on the coffin and accompanies it on its last journey. A poem is also written for the dead person and read at their funeral