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TIL Rudyard Kipling (perhaps best known for penning Rikki Tikki Tavi) was a staunch nationalist and pro-war advocate. However, his son disappeared in Belgium during WW1 and Rudyard’s wife never forgave him for pushing his child to enlist in the British army.

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jNQ0X TIL Alexander the Great admired Achilles and that the city of Troy was probably a part of modern day Turkey
VQeB TIL Chuck Lorre (producer of 2.5 Men, Big Bang Theory) wrote the lyrics to the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song
epRAL TIL that Sharks are older than Trees - Sharks have been around for at least 400 million years and have survived all five global mass extinctions. Fossil evidence shows that the earliest sharks evolved around 450 million years ago. By comparison, trees appeared just 360 million years ago.
JlNl TIL that a politician in Japan was assassinated by yakuza shortly after he announced an investigation into millions of dollars of off-the-book spending. No other politican has resumed his investigation.
KY9W9 TIL that Pablo Picasso was arrested as a suspect in the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa.