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TIL that Siberian Worms Frozen In Permafrost For Up To 42,000 Years Defrosted Back To Life and Are Said To Be Moving and Eating.

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EgKOV TIL the legal drinking age in the UK is 5.
POje TIL that Bridgetown, Barbados is the only city outside of North America that George Washington visited (with his brother Lawrence to treat his Tuberculosis). While there, 19 year-old George survived Smallpox, giving him immunity to the disease which later killed so many of his Revolutionary solders.
a10y TIL that Slash didn’t actually purchase his iconic top hat. He shoplifted it from a store. He just put it on his head and walked out.
mx57P TIL The 'first recorded murder victim' revealed… from 430,000 years ago. This is the earliest clear case of deliberate, lethal interpersonal aggression in the hominin fossil record, demonstrating that this is an ancient human behaviour
4XopN TIL the Union army once commandeered a boat to move 111 (unwilling) prostitutes to Louisville to stop VD spreading in their Nashville garrison. The Louisville authorities turned it away, as did everyone else, so after 28 days afloat it was forced to return to Nashville to disembark the furious girls