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TIL That Peter Piper Was A French Pirate Who Stole Nutmeg From Denmark (5th paragraph down).

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KODXQ TIL about Drapetomania, a "mental illness" made up in the 1850s to explain why slaves might want to escape
kJeyd TIL that after WW1 the German Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated and was allowed to seek asylum in the Netherlands. He lived there until his death in 1941.
b6Wr7 TIL Handel, known for his oratorios in English and Hallelujah chorus, was never fluent in spoken or written English. Messiah contained many examples of awkward declamation which were later corrected
P1PPL TIL that Humans shed around 200 million skin cells each hour. The epidermis (the top layer of the skin) is continuously working to replace these lost skin cells with new ones.
epRBb TIL that a violent conflict (1974 to 1978) took place between two communities of chimpanzees in Tanzania. A large party of chimpanzees separated themselves from a once unified group and formed new group known as Kahama. During the four-year conflict, all males of Kahama community were killed.