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TIL sucking a King’s nipple was a gesture of submission in ancient Ireland

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oB1r8 TIL: The grass at Wimbledon was kept two inches long until 1949 when an English tennis player was bitten by a snake.
7r16M TIL that the Australian island state of Tasmania has an 85-metre land border with Victoria due to a surveying error
d8bMj TIL that during the Battle of the Coral Sea, 6 Japanese planes accidentally tried to land on the carrier USS Yorktown
a8EBA TIL that Paul Revere’s son turned his father’s silversmith business into a copper manufacturing company and it has been in business since 1801
oRkVR TIL that one of the earliest known cases of Piracy came from Mozart when he was 14 after he listened to Miserere by Gregorio Allegri at a performance and later transcribed it from memory