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TIL the Child Ballads - a collection of English and Scottish ballads - aren't named because they're intended for young audiences. They're named as such because they were collected into an anthology by folklorist Francis James Child.

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OogO7 TIL there is an island in Ethiopia where Christian Ethiopians claim to have kept the Ark of Covenant for thousands of years. It is watched over by a single man with no name known as the "Guardian" and no woman are allowed on the island for fear of "stirring the passions" of the virgins on the island
eplQb TIL - The Bosozoku Biker Girl Gangs are violent Japanese outlaws, whose first members were former kamikaze pilots. Their motorcycles are flashy with loud pipes and they are frequently chased by police.
WkMnL TIL: the first pilots crossing the Atlantic, crash landed on bogland in the western tip of Ireland. During their flight they came into free fall twice above the ocean. They lost the hood of the ‘cockpit’ and went trough snow and rain at 3500 m altitude, soaking and freezing them completely.
neNWd TIL Australian opium farmers found mysterious crop circles in their fields. The culprits were wallabies who got high and bounced around in circles
oBp1E TIL students and lecturers at the University of Plymouth left a computer keyboard in the enclosure of six Celebes crested macaques in Paignton Zoo in Devon in England for a month. had only succeeded in partially destroying the machine, using it as a toilet and mostly typed the letter, "s"