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TIL the British Navy battled the French Navy in WWII.

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PvbO TIL That Aphantasia is the lack of ability to visualize images or hear sounds in your mind
16RoO TIL Kitum Cave, Kenya, believed to be the source of Ebola and Marburg, two of the deadliest diseases known to man. An expedition was staged by the US military in the 1990s in an attempt to identify the vector species presumably residing in the cave. It is one of the most dangerous places on Earth
9Y5nX TIL its Bachelor's Day in Ireland. It is an Irish tradition that takes place on Leap Day. Women can initiate dancing and propose a marriage. If the proposal was rejected, the man was expected to buy the woman a silk dress or, by the mid-20th century, a fur coat.
rNkM4 TIL a skydiver had a seizure while 9,000 feet in the air and was saved by his instructor pulling his ripcord
KOmnQ TIL King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were the first reigning English monarchs to visit America in 1939, 163 years after the American Revolution.