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TIL that the Ampersand used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet

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yQxdV TIL that Yellow River (Huang He) in China had shifted its course in 1855 when the river breaches its northern levees, causing the river mouth to be shifted hundreds of kilometres, from Yellow Sea south of Shandong Peninsula, to Bohai Sea, north of Shandong Peninsula.
1aMnX TIL Keith Moon died in the same apartment as Mama Cass approx. four years after her. They were both 32 when they passed.
YpPNZ TIL that the longest unbroken treaty relationship in U.S. history is with Morocco, with whom a treaty of peace and friendship was renegotiated in 1836, and remains in force today
KYOG4 TIL 20% of the population of the Six Nations tribes fought in WW2. The Choctaw language baffled German codebreakers, and Iroquois, who had officially declared war during WW1 and never made peace, officially declared war on Germany again during WW2.
9wOP6 TIL there is a group of wolves in British Columbia known as "sea wolves" and 90% of their food comes from the sea.