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TIL on the 5th May 1862 Mexican forces defeated the French at the Battle of Puebla, giving rise to the Cinco de Mayo celebrations.

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abWy TIL Bald Eagles go through a crazy color transformation: the first five years they gradually change; the beak turns from black to yellow, the eyes from brown to pale yellow, body feathers from mottled to dark brown, and head and tail feathers from mottled to solid white.
BrVLr TIL of the term "paraprosdokian" - a figure of speech in which the latter part of a phrase is surprising in a way that causes the reader or listener to reinterpret the first part. An example would be Mitch Hedberg's famous one-liner "I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long."
9w9kp TIL that the scientific consensus that humans are older than 6,000 years was only established in 1859, when British scientists visited Jacques Boucher de Perthes and validated the stone tools he had been publishing since 1847.
80rG TIL Mordechai Vanunu, a nuclear technician in Israel and anti WMD activist leaked a photograph to the British press of evidence Israel had nuclear weapons. He was later tracked by Mossad, drugged, bound, thrown in a bag and renditioned to Israel for trial.
5V6jD TIL Costasiella kuroshimae - Solar powered animals that do indirect photosynthesis