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TIL of Nyarri Morgan, an Australian aboriginal man who had no contact with the Western world until he witnessed - with no context - an atomic test and its resulting effects

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9YOwD TIL that elephants have prehensile penises, meaning that they can use them to pick things up and perform other various tasks.
9YW5X TIL “Amazing Grace” was written by a repentant slave trader who hoped “it will always be a subject of humiliating reflection to me.”
R7xD1 TIL Vandenberg Air Force Base is the most based base in the United States
rkG1 TIL that Iron Sky (the film about Moon Nazis) made over half of its box office gross in Germany
O8Va TIL when the French king Jean II was prisoner of the English, he was allowed to return to France to raise money for his ransom, leaving his son as a replacement hostage. When his son escaped, he voluntarily returned to England, citing reasons of “good faith and honor”.