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TIL in 2005, a sheep jumped off a cliff in Turkey and 1500 sheep followed one by one. 450 sheep died and the rest survived by landing on the soft big pile of sheep.

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pYGxp TIL King Frederick II took 5 babies from their families and deprived them of being talked to or even played with to figure out what language Adam and Eve spoke in the garden of Eden. He thought it was either Greek, Latin, Arabic, or Hebrew.
x6v9D TIL "skosh" comes from Japanese sukoshi meaning literally "a little"
69VVZ TIL what it was like for a family in 1982 whose home phone number was 867-5309 when Tommy Tutone's 867-5309/Jenny song became a hit: They had a lot of phone calls asking for Jenny
wLNBY TIL in 559 BC a chinese prisoner was sentenced to death by being flown off the top of a large tower attached to a kite. He survived the flight, and claimed the record of the highest jump survived by a person in the process. He was later starved to death in prison.
jNGLQ TIL of the tallest solider of all time, Väinö Myllyrinne. While he served for the Viipuri Heavy Artillery he was (7ft 3in) tall. Later in his life he had anothe growth spurt and he ended up being (8ft 3in) tall. On top of all that he was a wrestler, in a circus, and had GIANT hands.