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TIL of the Testament of Peter the Great, a fabricated document alleged to reflect Russian plans for world domination throughout the 18th and 19th centuries

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e07r4 TIL there is a documented war among two groups of chimpanzees, known as the "Gombe Chimpanzee War" or the "4 Year War"
N77WJ TIL in 2014 a man in South Africa was transporting 2 giraffes in an open trailer. While going under an overpass, one of the giraffes hit its head on the overpass and died, due to head trauma. Thankfully, the other survived.
V5kD TIL that the owner of XVideos.com was offered $120M for the company and responded with “Sorry, I have to go and play Diablo II.”
jN77N TIL about Harris Wofford, a former United States senator who, in his youth, founded a student movement for the creation of a world government. It had grown so large by the time he was 18 that Newsweek predicted he would become President one day.
M7YyW TIL that although equiped with parachutes while on air ambulance missions during WWII, the Flying Nightingales of the WAAF were instructed not to bail out and stay with the patients if their plane was shot down so that they would be on hand to provide medical support should anyone survive the crash