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TIL Ben & Jerry’s creators, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield first met because they were the slowest kids in their gym class.

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5YnG8 TIL that in 1666 the Dutch painter Willem van de Velde, when tasked with portraying a sea battle, manned a ship himself to make live drawings of the ongoing Four Days Battle from as close as possible.
W7RpA TIL of Etta Mae Lopez, a California woman who waited outside a jail all day and slapped the first deputy who came out, in order to get sent to prison where she hoped to quit smoking
lo1gB TIL Christianity has existed in India even before it did in the western world. Since it was established by Saint Thomas the disciple following the death of Jesus.
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ne9eG TiL: Australia's only recorded pirate is Black Jack Anderson, an African-American sealer who operated out of limestone cave rich Middle Island. From 1826, he robbed ships, murdered local Indigenous men and kidnapped their women for sex slaves. He is thought to have been murdered by his crew.