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TIL Bermuda has no indigenous population, and has only been permanently settled since 1609.

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kVlm TIL Irish slaves used to be shipped to America where they would be forced to breed with black slaves in order to produce “mulatto” slaves that were worth more than the cheap white Irish slaves.
0LwR TIL that the only woman who served in front-line reconnaissance in the Soviet marines during World War II, carried hundreds of men off the battlefield and was seriously wounded three times, received the highest award in the Soviet Union only in 1990, 45 years after the end of the war.
16QN4 TIL during a 2016 expedition to find the Loch Ness Monster, a 30-ft model of the Monster was discovered at the bottom of Loch Ness - a lost prop from the 1970 film 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'.
JYwvV TIL Oasis didn't take part in making the soundtrack for "Trainspotting", because Noel Gallagher thought the film was about actual trainspotters.
KYYV4 TIL that George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was originally titled "The Last Man in Europe", Orwell later considered "1980" and "1982" before settling on "1984". The title was not just an inversion of the year it was written (1948) which is often suggested.