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TIL Samurais in Japan were concurrent with Cowboys in the American Old West

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R5YR9 TIL Sean Connery had such a bad time on the set of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" in 2003 that it made him decide to retire from acting and publicly complain about "the idiots that make hollywood films these days"
b98KE TIL Every 4th of July The Philadelphia Liberty Bell is tapped (not rung) 13 times to honor the 13 colonies
DmWg TIL in 1941 the world’s largest seed bank (created by botanist Nikolai Vavilov) was housed in Leningrad. As the Germans surrounded the city forcing mass starvation, Vavilov’s scientists refused to eat from the collection, slowly dying of hunger as they maintained 16 rooms of edible plants.
QNEm9 TIL in Egypt, around 17000 divorce cases in 2018 cited "Candy Crush" as the cause of divorce.
kJo44 TIL honeybees are not native to North America