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TIL Jonathan Swift wrote a poem about the filthiness of a woman’s dressing room, which caused a woman to write a poem about him visiting prostitutes and being impotent.

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a8w19 TIL in 2015 the US Forces wanted to update the 'loose lips, sink ships' warning from WW2, Warning against sharing information with others outside the forces. They had to tailor it for the Social Media generation, and came up with: 'loose tweets destroy fleets'.
n88r TIL that polar bears sometimes inter-breed with grizzly bears creating a hybrid bear known as a pizzly bear, a prizzly bear, or a grolar bear
1aEvr TIL Archaeologists have discovered Ancient Hebrew artifacts in North America. Research indicates that they predate the European discovery of the continent by several hundred years, at the least.
NkDE TIL that WHO barred the US-based International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) from taking part in ‘WHO activities setting microbiological or chemical standards for food and water’ because 60 per cent of ILSI’s budget comes from ‘hundreds of chemical, food and drug companies’
x6XB5 TIL in the 1600s Kimpa Vita, an aristocrat in the Kongo Empire - the most powerful in Central Africa - started a new version of Catholicism: Antonianism. Gaining thousands of converts from peasantry and nobility, she took over the capital city of Sao Salvador. Aged 22, she burned at the stake.