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TIL that until the mid 1900s, French cooking had a delicacy made from a type of bug called "cockchafers".

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1anjr TIL of longplayer, a one thousand year long musical composition that is been playing since 31st of December 1999 and will continue till 2999.
pYJxQ TIL about the "Pig War" of 1859, an almost-war between the U.S. and Britain over U.S.-Canadian boundaries, all started by the shooting of a pig!
Y7yJG TIL the Ancient Egyptian Religion outlived the (Western) Roman Empire. Worship continued at the Philae Temple Complex until AD 537, more than sixty years after the Fall of Rome.
RbXQ TIL the CIA attempted to discredit Castro by making his beard fall off.
rN4vy TIL the Maquis from Star Trek share their name with a group of French guerrilla fighters who opposed the Nazi occupation of France during World War II