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TIL: The one hundred folds in a chef’s hat represent one hundred ways to cook an egg

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Y7x9Z TIL Dabitum, a slave-girl during the Old Babylonian period (c. 1900–1600 BC), is known today for her letter to her slave master concerning a miscarriage, which she wrote either herself or with the help of a scribe, to the absent father to communicate the distressing news and beg for help
E1lb0 TIL that way back in 1990, The Simpsons had a cameo on Sesame Street
ax4y TIL in 1974 Jane Goodall observed a social rift in a community of chimpanzees turn into a violent 4 year civil war for territory involving kidnapping, rape & murder, changing her perception of chimpanzees, it is known as the “Gombe Chimpanzee War”.
nd4B TIL that South Park is based on a real elementary school in Evergreen, CO, and Miss Crabtree, Mr. Mackey and Mr. Garrison are just a few of the characters that are based on actual people
16AO4 TIL the battle of D-Day that helped end WWII started with the wounded left to drown in the rising tide. If the men got to the beach at all, they were soaked, half-drowned, and seriously weakened from seasickness. They were often without an officer, a functioning radio, or even a working weapon.