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TIL that Danny Glover is the great great grandson of Harriet Tubman

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OoJNX TIL that the bird, Turkey (like the country) is Peru (like the country) in the Portuguese language
8p4X TIL Germany has a goal of producing 35% of electricity from renewable sources by 2020 and 100% by 2050
J5v TIL that a random guy on a beach in Scotland found an axe head that could be 450,000 years old
NXr88 TIL beginning in 46 B.C., in celebration of Julius Caesar's return to Rome after defeating Pompey the Great, the Colosseum was ordered to be flooded for a ship battle reenactment in honor of his military efforts against Gaul & Egypt.
QN8aL TIL the origin of the British National Anthem is believed by some to have originated in a prayer made for French King Louis XIV when he had an anal fistula