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TIL There was reportedly a 50-person pub brawl in a British pub over who would obtain the last bag of dry-roasted peanuts.

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NWk1 TIL that the louder the monkey, the smaller its testicles according a study published by researchers in Utah
kOvDB TIL Concerned about the number of cobras in Delhi, British colonial officials created a bounty, only to discover secret cobra farms created to collect the bounty. When the officials shut down the program the farms released their snakes, meaning they had far more cobras than before they started.
ABMx TIL that on August 1, 1946, in Athens, Tennessee, battle-hardened WWII veterans won a shootout with highly corrupt police deputies who were manipulating ballots and illegally holding ex-GIs in the county jail.
epMBJ TIL that the first documented prototype of a "flying car" was created in 1917 by inventor Glenn Curtiss, known as the “Hammond Flying Car.” This innovative vehicle featured folding wings for transitioning between flying and driving.
JNQ TIL that July 10th is Nikola Tesla Day