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TIL that the Danish woman Karen Jeppe freed 2000 women and children during the Armenian Genocide, and helped many others.

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l7lWK TIL that the Ohio River at Cincinnati has been as shallow as ~ 2 feet, in 1881, and has a record crest of 80 feet, in 1937.
D1gED TIL: About “Garden Path Sentences”, a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader’s most likely interpretation will be incorrect; the reader is lured into a parse that turns out to be a dead end or yields a clearly unintended meaning. Like “The old man the boat”
BdjK TIL that Monty Python did a pirate movie with Cheech & Chong, called “Yellow Beard”, I have to see this film!
l7vgK TIL that yoga mats were invented more than two thousand years after yoga
OEBR TIL at age 20, NBA legend Karl Malone impregnated a 13 year old girl. He refused to acknowledge his son and only spoke to him once, saying it was too late for them to have a relationship. The child went on to play in the NFL.