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TIL during the Irish Famine (1845-1849), under the ruling British Government, huge quantities of food were exported from Ireland to England throughout the period when the people of Ireland were dying of starvation.

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rkWe TIL when Alexander the Great was a child, his tutor rebuked him for wasting so much incense during a sacrifice to the gods. Years later, Alexander conquered Gaza and sent back 18 tons of the spices to his old tutor with a note telling him not to be stingy with the gods.
4X0A5 TIL that Judith Barsi, 10 year old child actress known for ‘A Land Before Time’ and other titles, was shot and killed by her own father in a tragic murder-suicide.
nWjKr TIL about a Chinese man named Zhao C (赵Ｃ), who was forced to change his name when he was 22 years old because it included a Latin character, which is not "part of the national standard for "numbers and symbols" of the People's Republic of China"
0jYN TIL that during the a battle in 1797, British Admiral Horatio Nelson was badly wounded in the right arm. When he came to the surgeon he said, “the sooner it is off the better,” within a half hour of the amputation he returned to command of his forces.
XdvR TIL there are only three species that go through menopause: humans, killer whales, and short finned pilot whales