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TIL that Winston Churchill claims that Jordan’s zigzagging border was partly due to the fact that he mapped them out drunk

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X096 TIL that PETA, on average, euthanizes 85% of the animals it “saves.”
nPE9 TIL the reason why the ship commanding a fleet is called a flagship comes from the Age of Sail. The fleet would be given orders by flags sent up on the admiral’s ship, thus making it the Flagship.
4XymR TIL about a conspiracy theory about an ad of a dice game that was thought to have been a coded warning of the upcoming attack on Pearl Harbor
xVWg7 TIL that from 8:30pm to 6am, Danish children's tv channel DR Ramasjang films characters from all of its programs tucked into their beds, fast asleep.
pjWb TIL that Teddy Roosevelt was so bored as VP of the United States that he seriously considered finishing law school while serving.