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TIL Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert were first cousins. Albert's father and Victoria's mother were brother and sister.

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OkZX TIL the earliest historical record of pillow use is from about 7000 BCE in the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia.
657Y TIL when Stephen Hawking gave a lecture in Japan he was asked not to mention the possible re-collapse of the universe, billions of years into the future, for fears of the effects on the stock exchange
9Y6yX TIL that legendary mountain man Jim Bridger loved telling tall tales, his favorite being the story about his pursuit by 100 Cheyenne warriors ending in him being closed in at the end of a canyon. At this point he would stop, and when inevitably asked what happened next, would reply "they killed me."
69BQ7 TIL Real Madrid legend Raúl started his football career at Atletico Madrid. He switched to Los Merengues when the Colchoneros club president at the time Jesus Gil believed the youth teams were not worth the expense and dissolved the entire system.
ZEVD TIL of a woman who sat on her boyfriend’s toilet for 2 years. Paramedics had to remove the seat, which accommpanied her to hospital, from the toilet as her skin had grown around it. Her boyfriend brought food and water and asked her to come out of the bathroom daily. She would reply “maybe tomorrow”