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TIL Since 1945 the world has only been 26 days without war.

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d8N4j TIL about the 18th century folk song Maggie May. A prostitute in Liverpool who robs sailors after spending the night with them, Maggie is eventually caught and sent to the Botany Bay penal colony in Australia. It's possible the song's story is of a real woman, Nellie Ray, a prostitute and thief.
a87dM TIL Nazis tried to take Christ out of Christmas because he was Jewish.
loWGA TIL: Mavis Beacon is not a real person
7MRL TIL that Harvard University has severe grade inflation. The most common grade is an A, and the median grade is an A-
ADPX4 TIL of Movile Cave. Life in the cave has been separated from the outside for the past 5.5 million years and it is based completely Chemosynthesis. The atmosphere deep in the cave it like an alien planet, and more than 30 of the species found inside cannot be found anywhere else on Earth.