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TIL ants evolved from wasps

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k0Xe TIL While playing a game of Chess in France, Benjamin Franklin took his opponent’s King after she inadvertently put it in check. When she said, “Ah, we don’t take kings so” Franklin replied, “We do in America.”
oNBE TIL In 1674, Manhattan was traded from the Dutch to the English for Run Island, an island in Indonesia which is now nearly uninhabited.
GYyrJ TIL Paul McCartney says he saw a tv show which claimed Penny Lane featured 9 simultaneous piano parts, while he remembered there being only 1. He was inspired by the show to overlay multiple instruments in his latest songs.
eBy4 TIL when Pope John XXIII was once asked, “How many people work in the Vatican?” John replied, “About half.”
QkA9 TIL that when a cat died in Ancient Egypt, their human family would go into a deep mourning and shave their eyebrows.