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TIL that whale carcasses sequester a huge amount of carbon in the ocean

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QGjL TIL Oxford University is older than the Aztecs. Oxford: 1249. Founding of Tenochtitlán: 1325.
grA9L TIL General Tso's chicken is named for Chinese general Tso Tsung-t'ang (1812-1885), best known for recapturing the great western desert region of Xinjiang. Popular in the US, there is no record of any dish named after General Tso in his region of Hunan
B5Dx TIL that George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm among others, was a Spanish Civil War veteran. He served with the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification, an anti-Stalinist communist international brigade fighting for the Loyalist (Republican) faction.
4Xoyb TIL about the Nigerian Civil War, where the US, UK, and the Soviet Union were supporting the same side during the cold war, while China, France, and West Germany were supporting the other side
XEoP TIL ‘mahna mahna’ song in the Muppets was originally written for a Swedish porno.