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TIL with a poem written for Elizabeth l, William Shakespeare was a rapper!

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nE17 TIL: The longest a Great White Shark has lived in captivity is 44 days.
LQlGV TIL that a rat king is not a large, singular rat, but a collection of rats that get their tails in a knot by accident (and squirrels can have this happen too); it has been recorded to happen about 60 times in the past 500 years
d8XO7 TIL when the Mets beat the Red Sox in the 1986 World Series, many Yankee fans attended the parade celebrating the Mets' win, saying that "anyone who beats Boston is worth coming down for."
8ePra TIL a nursing home in Finland gives subsidised accommodation to a select few students with the agreement that they spend time with the elderly
bPO4 TIL Alexander Graham Bell developed the metal detector as a last ditch effort to locate a bullet lodged in the chest of American President James Garfield in 1881; the attempt was unsuccessful because the metal coil spring bed Garfield was lying on confused the detector.