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TIL Guy Fawkes, a man famous for his part in the gunpowder plot to assassinate King James I of England, was ranked 30th in a BBC list of the 100 greatest Britons of all time. King James I did not make the list.
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TIL Thomas Jefferson and George Washington happened to both be King George III's 11th cousin, once removed. They were leading a revolution against their own blood relatives.
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TIL that in 1483 sir Henry Wyatt, an English knight, was imprisoned and left with no food. He would have starved to death, if it had not been for a cat he made friends with. That cat brought him pigeons to eat every day, and so he survived for two years before he was freed by his companions in 1485.