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TIL that the the royal anthem could also be called “god save the king”

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Mer6K TIL A secret message was engraved inside Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch by a jeweler, and it was not discovered until 2009.
O9Ne TIL Henry Ford believed ethanol was the future of fuel and said: “There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.”
BrxnW TIL there are more people in modern Italy than in the entire Roman empire at its peak
4kRAw TIL that there were five cases of bonobos in groups hunting monkeys in Salonga National Park. In three of these, the bonobos ended up eating baby monkeys.
OGLOe TIL that the word "Sideburns" came from the American Civil War Union General, Ambrose Burnside's unusual facial hair. They were originally named "Burnsides", but this was later corrupted to the word "Sideburns" that we know today!