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TIL the Sheriff of Nottingham is a real office and still exists today

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l7LR5 TIL in 1912, a man found the skull of a prehistoric "missing link" in the human evolutionary chain. In 1953, it was discovered that the skull was that of a medieval human with an orangutan jaw and fossilized chimpanzee teeth. "The Piltdown Man" become the most famous paleoanthropological hoax ever.
E6Xx TIL 24 out of the 56 countries and states of Africa are in a war or military conflict
R78Gl TIL UPS drivers wore green uniforms when they started in West Germany because the locals associated the "brown shirts" with the Nazis.
VMdg4 TIL the New York Jets have never beaten the Philadelphia Eagles (American football)
7G5Z TIL after receiving complaints about the size of their sandwiches, Subway responded “‘Subway Footlong’ is a registered trademark as a descriptive name for the sub sold … and not intended to be a measurement of length.”