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TIL about the worlds most violent courtship “the rough wooing” in which England invaded Scotland with the goal of capturing its infant queen Mary Stuart and forcing her to marry the English prince and later king Edward VI.

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Bgobr TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.
g1x7 TIL that Katey Sagal (Married With Children, Futurama, Sons of Anarchy) has twin sisters who had their own TV show in the 80’s called Double Trouble
xYWD TIL: The Joshua Tree made famous by U2 has been dead since late 2000. A plaque commemorates where it stood
w1mJ TIL That a man named Sir Nicholas Winton organised the rescue and passage to Britain of about 669 mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children destined for the Nazi death camps before World War II. Him at a ceremony surrounded by those he saved.[VIDEO]
R5pb7 TIL that some orb weaver spiders stitch a zipper pattern in their webs so birds and larger creatures don’t pass through and wreck them.