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TIL Samuel J. Tilden, Governor of New York from 1875 to 1876 and the 1876 Democratic nominee, was a lifelong bachelor and once disclosed to a friend that he never slept with a woman before

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jNGEE Til Horses originated in North America and spread to every Afro Eurasia and South America, only to become extinct in North America where they originated from. They were then reintroduced back to North America by humans. They have been in every continent including Antarctica now.
mxJ6R TIL in 1942 the BBC issued an appeal for postcards and photographs of the coast of Europe from Norway to the Pyrenees. It was actually an intelligence gathering exercise, they were sent to the War Office to help determine a suitable location (Normandy) for the eventual D-Day landings of 1944.
l78vA TIL during the 1942 blockade of Leningrad, where starvation was utilised as a siege strategy, those convicted of cannibalism were divided into two legal categories: corpse-eating and person-eating. The former were sent to prison, while the latter were shot.
Y7BEG TIL John Cage composed Imaginary Landscapes No. 4 which was scored for twelve radios tuned at random
1a0V8 TIL Scientists identified a vast underground ecosystem of billions of micro-organisms below the earth - twice the size of the Earth's oceans. Life was shown to survive far beneath the Earth's surface for long periods of time, without energy from the Sun.