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TIL in 1677 the Dutch gave away Manhattan for a small Indonesian island

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woxxJ TIL that in 1087 sailors from Bari (southern Italy) stole the body of Saint Nicholas from Myra (modern day Türkiye). Despite fears of the locals, newly converted Muslims who still worshiped the saint, and Saint Nicholas himself, they brought it home and still celebrate the theft each year on 6 Dec
yBap TIL the Polish Beer-Lovers’ Party (PPPP) won 16 seats in the Sejm with 2.97% of the vote in the first free parliamentary elections in 1991, before disintegrating into Large Beer and Small Beer factions despite party president Rewiński’s claims that “beer is neither light nor dark, it is tasty.”
D9Gj TIL of Puppy Pregnancy Syndrome: an illness where people believe they are pregnant with puppies after being bitten by a dog.
78yXO TIL that the heir apparent for the Qajar Dynasty that ruled Iran from 1789-1925 is a university professor professor in Dallas and his nickname is "Mickey"
1xa4 TIL that JK Rowling told Warner Bros. that Harry Potter had to be filmed in Britain with an all-british cast