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TIL the last living grandchild of Queen Victoria, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, lived until 1981

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M7BOa TIL Halloween started around 2,000 years from an ancient Celtic festival to celebrate the end of harvest season. The Gaels believed on Oct 31, the boundaries between the worlds of living and the dead got a little blurry and the dead would come back to life and wreak havoc among the living
ZpMpp TIL in 2020 two Slovenes were fined for taking their 2 rheas (emu like birds) on a train to Venice where they then proceeded to wander the streets freely.
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