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TIL that the oldest English recipe for an Indian-style curry dates to 1758

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Wk678 TIL when Halle Berry won a Worst Actor Razzie award for her role in Catwoman, she showed up in person to collect the award. She spoke while holding her Academy Award from Monster's Ball in one hand and the Razzie in the other.
WkVjX TIL that elephants are very good swimmers: once an elephant was rescued from the ocean 10 miles off Sri Lanka coast: it got caught in a current off the coast near Kokkilai but it was still swimming
4XX16 TIL that the number 1 billion in most countries in continental Europe equates to 1 million millions instead of 1 thousand millions like it does in many English and Arabic speaking countries, Brazil, and the former Soviet Union countries.
X01dX TIL: That in a certain type of flame cutting, Oxyfuel, you are essentially just rusting through the metal EXTREMELY quickly
PYQXO TIL an iceberg with a red streak of paint along its base was found on April 15, 1912, close to where the Titanic sank