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TIL we used Malaria to treat Syphilis

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B6gr TIL A goat was once arrested in Nigeria after vigilantes claimed it was an armed robber who turned himself into a goat with black magic.
oBd0E TIL Queen Elizabeth II, the longest serving British monarch, met Tu’i Malila the tortoise, the world’s oldest tortoise on record who lived to be 189.
pYErO TIL when Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson made the song, "Say Say Say" in 1983, Paul talked to Michael about investing in music publishing. Two years later Michael purchased the the majority of the Beatles’ catalog for $47 million outbidding Paul. The Beatles catalog is worth an estimated 1 billion
VB1X4 TIL every May in Hamburg tugboats perform choreographed tugboat ballet to the tunes of waltz
yQmkV TIL not only does the Aztec word that became avocado mean “testicle” (because it grows in pairs), but the fruit was apparently adapted for megafauna like mammoths and giant sloths who would eat it and poop out its unusually large seed in distant locations.