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TIL that the Isles of Scilly and the Netherlands were in a bloodless war for 335 years, which officially ended in 1986

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B55D TIL a gay penguin couple was given an egg of their own after the biological penguin parents abandoned it and the adopted parents are doing an amazing job of raising their new baby
LQl6Q TIL Microsoft didn't develop MS-DOS, but bought it off a programmer named Timothy Paterson in 1981.
neNed TIL Cyrano de Bergerac, Badass in the 1600s, wrote about using rocket power to get to the Moon and talking earrings (headphones) used to educate children.
D1PMj TIL second breakfast is a traditional meal in Poland and Bavaria. Special dishes exist exclusively for this breakfast.
ADQm4 TIL people in Toronto once passive aggressively protested by making a memorial for a dead raccoon after it lay on the street for 12 hours