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TIL that coins dating back to ancient Roman times have been found across the US indicating they arrived before Columbus

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Er6X TIL-King Otto of Bavaria – who ‘ruled’ from 1886 to 1913, and was quite mad – exercised his right to shoot one peasant every day. Luckily for Bavaria’s peasants, his attendants gave him pistols loaded with blanks and dressed up as peasants, playing dead whenever he ‘shot’ them.
VBVxD TIL that due to our common primate ancestor, orangutans also have ABO blood types like humans
GYYOE TIL that faking the moon landing in 1969 would have been harder than actually going to the moon
Y7BGd TIL Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton was taller than Michael Jordan.
16QyW TIL In 1976 author Marian Engle wrote a book called "Bear". Dubbed one of the most controversial books in Canadian history this book centers around a women who enters a sexual relationship with a Bear.