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TIL: Yankee Doodle was originally written as a dis track by the British

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Wk77L TIL when African elephant bulls enter “must” (a rutting phase of the reproductive cycle), they experience Green Penis Syndrome. During this time they secrete pungent liquids from their temporal glands, while the penis turns green and releases a constant dribble of strong-smelling urine.
XmL8 TIL a British soldier was cut off from his regiment in 1914 and managed to hide in occupied territory in a wardrobe for 4 years with the Germans at one point even helping to move the wardrobe with him in it.