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TIL Cashmere Wool Comes From Goats, Not Sheep

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NXMLN TIL, Derek Chisora often buys 5 guys burgers for his team and opponents team after the fight win or lose
PwQJ TIL of John Clem, a Union drummer boy during the American Civil War who shot a Confederate colonel who demanded his surrender. He was later promoted to sergeant becoming the youngest NCO in the history of the US Army.
yQJDp TIL Princess Elisabeth of Hesse was royal in England, Russia and Germany. She and her husband were murdered by Russian Revolutionaries. Her body was buried in Russia, then moved to Beijing, China and is now buried in a Russian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem.
PYYLw TIL that woodpeckers have exceptionally long tongues that wrap around their brains.
pYW6Z TIL North Korea has a water park in Pyongyang