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TIL An orangutan from a zoo reintroduced to the wild in Borneo began spear fishing after watching local fisherman

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VMRYp TIL that flying a black Jolly Roger signaled piracy and offered your victim the option to surrender. Flying a red Jolly Roger signaled that no quarter would be given and your ship was about to be taken with no mercy.
epgWb TIL Martha Gellhorn was the only woman reporter at the D-Day landings. Having been refused accreditation, she got there by stowing away in the toilet of a hospital ship until it set sail. She went ashore with medics to help bring back the wounded and reported on what she saw and heard.
x6Ad0 TiL that nachos were invented by Ignacio Anaya. "Nacho" is the nickname of Ignacio.
nBPW TIL that the Egyptian word for cat is Mau, and is pronounced ‘Meow’
yQmX8 TIL after a Polish Admiral of German descent Józef Unrug was taken prisoner during WW2, his former Imperial German Navy friends came to visit him. Unrug refused to speak German with them, saying that he had forgotten that language in September 1939 the day Germany invaded Poland