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TIL Clownfish Turn Into Females When Older

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yLvl TIL: The Barbary slave trade lasted for nearly 3 centuries. During that time, up to 1.25 million white Europeans were enslaved by African slavers.
ADa4a TIL when LBJ died on January 22nd, 1973, then President Richard Nixon was the only living President, past or sitting.
9YvNM TIL in the 1600s to avoid slavery a group of Africans on St. Vincent Island acquired the customs and language of the Native American group Kalipona so that Europeans would consider them to be native and leave them alone.
L5k9 TIL beaver butt produces such a delicious flavor it is used for vanilla and strawberry natural flavoring.
dxXZ TIL that the phrase “You’ve got guts” originated from the American Civil War era during which over 211,000 soldiers were diagnosed with chronic diarrhea. Because of its frequency, the expression arose that a man “had to have good guts to be a good soldier.”