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TIL The Dalai Lama eats meat, for health reasons and out of respect for his hosts on his travels

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wa8Y TIL ‘smurf accounts’ in competitive video games are named such because some of the first top players to make alternate accounts chose the usernames 'PapaSmurf’ and 'Smurfette.’
ANZ8l TIL that the Titanic was not the first ship of it's production line. With the Titanics sister ship, the Olympic (which was only 3 inches shorter and 1000 tons lighter than the Titanic), having already served as a successful cruise liner for a whole year before the Titanics fateful maiden voyage.
dy18 TIL that Oxford University is so old, one of its contituent colleges called “New College” was established in 1379.
BrQLk TIL Czar Nicholas II actually wanted to meet with protesters and negotiate solutions, but his ministers rejected that idea and sent in soldiers to shoot at the protesters, triggering the 1905 revolution.
me0p TIL that in 2011 a man hid in a tank of raw sewage at a yoga festival to watch women going to the bathroom. When someone spotted him he fled, covered in feces.