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TIL Jehovah’s Witnesses have falsely predicted the end of the world 20 times.

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74vX TIL that Jim Crow-era “Literacy Tests” were frequently not even legitimate tests of reading skills but instead were a series of incredibly confusing trick questions such as “Print the word vote upside down, but in the correct order.”
P1aXO TIL that from 1801 to 1810 a pirate named Zheng Yi Sao was active in the South China Sea, eventually rising to lead a pirate confederacy. When she retired in 1810, she had 24 ships and 1433 pirates under her personal command. She later served as a privateer and retired to run a casino, dying at 68.
jOmR TIL a group of panda is called an Embarrassment.
VJMp TIL Olympic Gold Medals are 92.5% silver
rWYx TIL that in Victorian times testicles were referred to as ‘whirlygigs’, 'bawbles’ and 'twiddle-diddles’