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TIL that the annexation of Crimea was predicted years before by diplomats, as revealed by Wikileaks in 2006 and 2011.

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VBMJZ TIL that the name "The Wars of the Roses" was made up centuries later, by Sir Walter Scott, the British novelist.
0dZ7M TIL In 1944, Helen Martini was hired as the Bronx Zoo's first female keeper after successfully raising 3 tiger cubs. She was famous for treating animals in her Bronx apartment-sometimes despite the complaints of neighbors-including gorillas, marmosets, baby deer, antelope, squirrels, and skunks.
P0O TIL Jackie Chan will donate all his money to charity so his son can earn his own worth.
m1n7M TIL of the 'Eddie Murphy Rule' in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act which disallows secretly giving out doctored market information so as to corner a market using false information.
nWvNB TIL that the first recorded organism to reproduce sexually is a red algae called “Bangiomorpha pubescens” found in 1.2 billion-year-old rock deposits.