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TIL that Cowboys didn’t actually wear cowboy hats. ????????????

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xYJ0 TIL that the special seaweed that tastes like Bacon when fried or smoked, Dulse, is already available in some stores in the smoked variety
9wrLm TIL that only reason a Scottish piper wasn't shot by German snipers on D-Day was because it was their belief that he was crazy.
lxe7 TIL a recent poll showed that most newlyweds did not have sex on their wedding night
78oyL TIL that in 2009, hundreds of brightly-colored bird specimens were stolen from the Natural History Museum London. It was later found that a student had sold them online to be used for fly-fishing lures.
OGLLa TIL Princess Alice of Battenberg, the mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II, organized soup kitchens and orphanages during the Nazi occupation of Greece. She would give away her own food to people on the street and she hid Jews in her home. She was also born deaf.