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TIL that California black acorns were used by California native Americans as a staple food.

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jekN TIL that the record for the highest number of children birthed by one woman goes to a Russian couple by the name of Vassilyev, having birthed a total of 69 children over a span of 40 years.
5VrLn TIL the use of OMG is over a hundred years old
a8XJZ TIL that Kim Jong-il was born in the Soviet Union under the name Yuri Irsenovich Kim, as the USSR required Russian-style names in official birth records.
NXQV1 TIL in 2018 the first documented instance of interspecies adoption between animals that strongly compete for resources in the wild was recorded when a lioness was observed to have adopted a baby leopard as one of her own.
0wZE1 TIL Impalement (Execution by a slowly sliding down a pole inserted through the rectum or vagina over the course of days) was used as recently as the Armenian Genocide (~1915) by The Young Turks