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TIL that the English may have established a short lived colony in Texas in the late 16th century.

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dZmd TIL that the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin contains an anti-graffiti chemical - which turned out to be manufactured by the same company that made the Zyklonn B gas used in concentration camp gas chambers during World War 2.
6P5W TIL When a male and female lobster are ready to mate, they will fight with each other and do the lobster’s equivalent of urinating on each other’s faces.
QN6M TIL From 1953 to 1958 the Cincinnati Reds officially changed their name to the Cincinnati Redlegs because they were afraid of being thought to be associated with communism.
lowxA TIL: Of the 22 people voted to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, 15 of them are are now either banned from FIFA for life, suspended, imprisoned, or fighting extradition to the USA to face federal charges. Only one still actually works for FIFA
WkAQ4 TIL in 1902 a man named Ludger Sylbaris survived a volcanic eruption that killed 30,000 people because he was drunk and arrested the night before. Held in a windowless cell he stopped the superheated shockwave from vaporizing the air inside by peeing on his clothes and stuffing them in the door slit