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TIL Elmo is the only nonhuman to testify before the US Congress

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woogo TIL: Mercia was one of the three notable Anglic kingdoms founded after as Sub-Roman Britain was settled by Anglo-Saxons. It was centred around the River Trent and its tributaries, in a region now known as the Midlands of England.
epwLg TIL Pedro Rodrigues Filho, one of Brazil's most prolific killers. Having killed between 71-100+ criminals as a vigilante (including his father), he was given a the maximum sentence in Brazil of 30 years. Filho now has a successful YouTube career with 250k subs
YpnLr TIL that during WW2, the Irish Republican Army attempted to collaborate with the Nazis, and even prepared an invasion plan to assist the German invasion of Northern Ireland.
W7Jyo TIL of the longest pro baseball game jn history between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox. It lasted 33 innings, with 8 hours and 25 minutes of play total.
699nm TIL there was disagreement over the danger of black widow spider bites until a 1933 experiment where professor Allan Blair allowed himself to be bitten. Blair also hoped to determine whether multiple bites would build immunity, but the first bite proved so painful that he decided against it.