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TIL all maps of China are slightly wrong

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gMoEb TIL learned that early English puritans named their children some brilliantly insane names, with top hits including If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-for-Thee-Thou-Hads’t-Been-Damned Barebone, No-Merit Vinall, Sorry Scott and many more.
9QQG TIL That after Jimi Hendrix had played with Eric Clapton, Eric was stunned and the whole crowed was silences. As Clapton quoted “You never told me he was that f–king good!”
P11Zw TIL about Rattlesnake Kate, a Colorado resident who killed 140 of the serpents with a metal signpost in a single battle & later learned to collect venom to save lives. Her snake dress is on display in Greeley (where Al-Qaeda got its roots.. that's a different TIL)
WR14 TIL Ants conduct war in ways similar to humans - they even use more advanced strategies like reconnaissance and sending expendable ants to the front line as to preserve the stronger ones.
VMnPZ TIL Some visitors to Jerusalem go psychotic in the same chilling ways: ditching their family to wander the city alone, preaching sermons at holy sites, obsessing over cleanliness, wearing togas, and shouting scripture. Affects all faiths.