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TIL that the Three Hundred and Thirty-Five Years War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly lasted from 1651 to 1986 and reportedly had zero casualties

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G4e4 TIL that Lisbon is nearly four centuries older than Rome, and is the second oldest European capital after Athens.
0wv85 TIL: Spurgling is the practice of a woman (usually a girlfriend) stealing the sperm of a man to impregnate herself without his knowledge or consent.
gMaL TIL Lily Allen supported the British government in targeting file sharers violating copyright laws and there was a backlash because it was found that she plagiarized in her blog supporting it, making her a hypocrite
eAXE TIL That every purple heart awarded by the military since 1945 is one of the 500,000 purple hearts manufactured in anticipation of U.S. casualties resulting from the invasion of Japan. There 120,000 left.
5eZB TIL that not only can you “square” a number, you can also “triangle” a number.