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TIL of John Robert Dunn - a South African born Scotsman who became a Zulu chief and fathered 117 children with 48 zulu women and one mixed English-woman in the late 1800s.

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Oo6B6 TIL of Narcisse Pelletier, a French cabin boy who was abandoned by his ship’s crew in north-east Australia in 1858. He was rescued by an Aboriginal family and went on to live with the Uutaalnganu people for the next 17 years until he was kidnapped by an English crew and returned to France in 1875.
j7Mv TIL that Sweden hosts the world’s largest scale model of the Solar System, based around the Ericsson Globe arena in central Stockholm, which acts as the ‘Sun’.
xVOyg TIL About the diving horses of Atlantic City. From the mid 1880's until 1978! the (mostly female) riders would ride their horse up a ramp some 60 ft high to plummet into a small pool.
oRxbW TIL: That children can also be affected by dementia, and that it is more common then conditions like cystic fibrosis. Affecting approximately 1 in every 2,800 babies
P10E TIL that in Ghana it is desirable to be buried in a novelty coffin, with favourites including a huge Coke bottle, an oversized Nokia and a giant catfish.