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TIL The real meaning of "You Can't Have Your Cake And Eat It Too".

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l46r TIL that British India tried to get rid of cobras by offering a reward for captured snakes. Locals started breeding cobras & giving them to the government to collect the reward. The British found out & stopped the program. The breeders then released their snakes, causing the population to increase
xV9xo TIL Mel Gibson had no idea how to do a Scottish accent for Braveheart so he had dinner in Sean Connery's home and learned from the master
xVveD TIL about Joachim Rønneberg, who at 23 led a team of Norwegian saboteurs on cross country skis on a mission to destroy Hitler's chance at building an atomic bomb
nePL7 TIL that the confederate president tried to escape capture dressed as an old women at the end of the civil war
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