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TIL a priceless 'Anglo-Saxon' casket was found being used as a sewing box by a local family

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KYlJ TIL that a Greek soldier chased his dog across the border resulting in a Bulgarian invasion. It was called the “War of the Stray Dog”.
LQPy9 TIL Riverdance, the global sensation theatre show of traditional Irish music and dancing, was originally the intermission act for the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest.
En87 TIL when Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises he tried to ride them
M7en8 TIL that on the atoll of Pinglelap, 10% of the population is affected by total colorblindness, with another 30% being unaffected carriers of the gene. This is due to a population bottleneck caused by a typhoon in 1775 that left 20 survivors on the atoll. One carried the colorblindness gene.
8elDb TIL: Excel spreadsheet can handle 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns at a time.