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TIL Bill Gates is a Knight Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

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OoNBg TIL It's been twenty years since we first created a pig-man hybrid
E1By7 TIL William Pitt the Younger was admitted into Cambridge University at the age of 13 and became UK prime minister at age 24. He is the youngest prime minister in British history.
wLVvM TIL that the Sentinelese, an uncontacted tribe (always attacking outsiders too close to the Sentinel Island), started to use arrows with metal tips rather than stone tips. It is believed that they have scavenged a ship that ran aground the island on 1981 and extracted its metal.
Vlwp TIL blind hiker Bill Irwin completed the Appalachian Trail with the help of his seeing eye dog, after falling ~5,000 times
DOgj TIL some WWII POWs in Japan, would keep their morale up and defy guards by holding in their farts until they were made to bow to a portrait of Emperor Hirohito. At the lowest point of their bow they would let loose.