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TIL the world record for most sheep sheared in a day is 517, held by Una Cameron. She did it at age 51, in a stunt aimed at raising funds for a blood cancer charity.

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NZKN TIL the Titanic’s older sister ship, the Olympic kind of was unsinkable, it crashed into a plethora of things without sinking and was used in WWI to ram and sink German U-boats.
VMDbk TIL that King Alexander of Greece died at the age of 27 as a result of the bite of a Barbary macaque while trying to separate a fight between his dog and the monkey.
88vG TIL that Dickens’ secular vision of Christmas resulted in many of the traditions that are employed today, including popularizing the phrase, “Merry Christmas.”
v1gE8 TIL that FDR's grandfather from his mother's side made a fortune from smuggling Opium into china that was banned due it being addictive, he later supplied the union army with it during the civil war.
ra9e TIL in 1967 a magazine published a fake story about extracting hallucinogenic chemicals from bananas to raise moral questions about banning drugs. People didn’t realize it was a hoax and began smoking banana peels to try to get high.