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TIL Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire

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8eJJL TIL there's a musical instrument from Newfoundland, Canada called the Ugly Stick that is usually made from a mop handle, beer caps, an empty can and an old boot. When hit with a stick or stomped on the ground, it resembles the sounds of a drum set.
5YQwn TIL Ferret means "little thief" and a group of them is called a "business". Also, if excited, they perform a behavior called the "weasel war dance".
yQAlV TIL Jesse James once paid off a widow's mortgage and saved her from foreclosure because she gave him food. He made sure she got a receipt from the banker and then robbed the man a mile down the road.
mxN7P TIL of 'The World's Loneliest Man' who is a man from Brazil who has never been contacted by the outside world and who's remaining members of the tribe were massacred in the mid '90's.
78M7X Til that by 1910, 10% of tuberculosis cases were caused by raw milk consumption, and by 1938 25% of all food/waterborne disease was linked to unpasteurized milk, regardless of farm hygiene or symptomatic status of the animal. This predates factory farming.