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TIL The world's oldest "Yo mama" joke is 3,500 years old

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0LAv TIL that an Oxford University genetic study found that the English are actually French and German, and that the Welsh are the true Britons
mGM TIL there’s a lake in Senegal with bright pink water
negGr TIL about the SMS Emden, a small German cruiser in the first world war that raided shipping in the Indian Ocean. in late 1914 she sailed over 35k miles around the Ocean, sinking a total of 71k tons of shipping. (more in comments)
PbyO TIL that when Nintendo remade Ocarina of Time for the 3DS, they had to build to game back up completely, as the N64 version could not be ported to the 3DS. They even purposely programmed in some of the bugs from the original to make the game as close to the N64 version as possible.
b9ogN TIL The Brothers Grimm wrote a fairytale, called The Brave Little Tailor, wherein a tailor kills seven flies in one blow and, through an amazing series of misunderstandings, becomes the king of his own kingdom.