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TIL. Inhabitants of Hamburg, Germany are known as Hamburgers

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6VrW TIL Bill Clinton’s cat has his own unreleased SNES game, in which he fights caricatures of Republican leaders to warn the White House of a stolen nuclear missile.
xVAW1 TIL Queen Alexandra's Birdwing, native to Papua New Guinea and named in honor of Alexandra of Denmark, is the largest butterfly in the world. Females have wingspans reaching 25cm/9.8in and males are smaller. The first specimen was taken with a small shotgun. It is currently listed as endangered.
PDPg TIL that chimpanzees fight wars like humans. Happend 1974-1978 in Gombe National Park. It is called the “Four Year War of Gombe”. Two parties fought, and one party won the war by extermination of the other. Jane Goodall observed this war and was frightend by the brutality.
M7AeB TIL that the last Confederate forces surrendered six months after the Civil War ended after the captain of a rogue commerce raider, the CSS Shenandoah, circumnavigated the globe to finally hand over his ship to the mayor of Liverpool, England
LB5r TIL that 2014 was McDonald’s worst year in a decade