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TIL of Sybil Ludington—a 16-year-old revolutionary who rode twice the distance Paul Revere did in 1777 to warn people of a British invasion. She navigated 40 miles of rainy terrain at night while avoiding British loyalists and ended up completing her mission before dawn the next day.

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xVmJg TIL the largest integrated film city in the world is located in India, and has been described as "a city within a city". It is also a popular tourism and recreation centre, containing several attractions including an amusement park. Around 1.5 million tourists visit the place every year.
DZmD TIL in an experiment every one of 54 undergraduates in wine making and tasting thought they were tasting a red wine while it was actually a dyed white wine. Furthermore when comparing identical wine of different prices experts raved about the expensive wine while panning the cheap wine
xVQQ7 TIL that the rarest stamp in the world (the 1856 British Guiana 1c magenta) - of which only one specimen exists - has broken the world record stamp price each of the last four times it has been sold. It was sold for 6s, £120, £150, $36,000, $40,000, $280,000, $935,000, and most recently $9,480,000
NW18 TIL the biological theory that males are naturally promiscuous and females naturally monogamous was largely based on one study of fruit flies from 1948
r1Qy TIL a Russian woman in the 1700’s gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets in just 40 years with the same man.