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TIL that Australia was once home to a flightless bird known as the Demon-Duck of Doom

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wLJkJ TIL the spices mace and nutmeg are produced by the same plant
Vx54 TIL, when Carl Linnaeus was in Hamburg, the mayor proudly showed him the remains of a seven-headed hydra. Linnaeus found out the remains were fake and made it public. As a result Linnaeus was forced to leave Hamburg immediately, as he crushed the mayor´s dream of selling the hydra for a large sum.
XEkXE TIL the Bengal famine of 1943 saw the starvation deaths of at least two million Indians. Upon learning about the conditions Winston Churchill sent a telegram to ask why Ghandi hadn't starved.
yQjQ8 TIL Vikings honored their high ranking women warriors with the same ceremony and respect awarded to all successful professional warriors.
0DOp TIL When Australia beat England in a cricket match in 1882, a British newspaper published an obituary proclaiming the death of English cricket. The symbolic ashes of its cremation were placed in an urn, and both teams still compete to win them back every two years.