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TIL 65% of the world drinks goat milk over cow milk.

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oRJbY TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte didn't really spoke french until he was around 10 years old.
ONrg TIL in the 1936 Olympics, promoted by Hitler to prove that whites are superior, Peru beat Austria 4-2 on soccer, even though they had 3 other goals nullified. Later, the Olympic Comitee nullified the match and scheduled a rematch, to be taken under close grounds. Peru withdrew from the Olympics
VM84D TIL Mozart wrote a Piano Sonata for Rose Cannabich, his 15 year old pupil. Mozart described it as a sort of a portrait of "a very beautiful well-behaved girl, very sensible and demure for her age, serious, speaking little but, when she does, with grace and friendliness"
Zp9EQ TIL that in the late 1890’s and early 1900’s, the Imperial German government made plans to invade the United States. These plans were first made public in 1970.
Y7dWB TIL about the Pacification of Algeria, which took place between 1830 and 1875 and cost the lives of between 500 000 and 1 million Algerians, or about one third of the total Algerian population