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TIL that the British made war ships for the confederacy during the American Civil War

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ADy1d Today I learned how to say "my hovercraft is full of eels" in Latvian.
Y8A TIL that Elvis Presley hated John Lennon and wanted to beat him up for his anti-war stance.
OGDR7 TIL Humans kill somewhere between 100 & 273 million sharks annually . Most are slaughtered exclusively for their fins to make a soup that is unhealthy—the tissue contains high levels of methylmercury. Population declines since the 1970s: blacktip = 93%, tiger = 97%, bull/dusky/hammerhead = 98%.
b6G8a TIL that the city of Melbourne in Australia was briefly known as Batmania in 1835, named after one of its founders, John Batman. It was officially renamed Melbourne in 1837 after the British Prime Minister at the time, Lord Melbourne.
GnP7 TIL that a man on trial brought a bag of poop into the courtroom, smeared feces on his lawyer and then threw the remainder of the poop at the jury.