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TIL Wil.I.Am created the Samurai Jack theme song

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M7N4V TIL Anne Frank wrote four dirty jokes in her diary, which she later papered over so they weren’t discovered by researchers until 2018.
Y7Gy7 TIL the word "partridge" probably comes from ancient Greek "pérdomai", a word meaning "to fart".
D1KpY TIL of Mim, an eastern grey kangaroo raised by a family who hand-fed her. After they released her, Mim roamed wild for years; but when wildfires burned near the family's home in Kulnura, Australia, Mim turned up at their door seeking shelter. They let her stay indoors where she lounged on a blanket.
BrN8e TIL that in WWI trench guns were given to US soldiers skilled in trap shooting so they could shoot incoming grenades out of the air
ZpKpG TIL in 1804, a Haitian force comprised mostly of former slaves went house-to-house torturing and killing most of the remaining European population. Between 3,000 and 5,000 were killed.