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BKBk TIL in 1910 a group of students from Cambridge darkened their skin, donned turbans, and presented themselves to the British Royal Navy as ambassadors from Abyssinia. They conducted an inspection of the fleet, bestowed honors upon British officers, and spoke in a Latin/Greek gibberish.
78ZnX TIL of Patagonian Welsh, a dialect found in Argentina developed by Welsh immigrants in the 1870s in an effort to preserve the Welsh language.
0BZp TIL of the St Scholastica Day riot. In 1355 at Oxford a dispute between two students and a tavern keeper escalated to a two-day riot where 93 people died. The entire incident was over the quality of drinks being served at the tavern
p8AVO TIL that Moldova is the poorest in Europe in per capita terms, but the country has a well-established wine industry. Mileștii Mici is the home of the largest wine cellar in the world. It stretches for 200 km and holds almost 2 million bottles of wine.
1AP7 TIL Band-aids emit a blue flash of light when pulled apart - visible to the human eye when you do it in the dark!