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TIL that according to Welsh legends fairies used to ride corgis into battle

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XRAR TIL that Pluto couldn’t even complete a solar orbit between being discovered and being declassified as a planet.
7rraL TIL that "ye olde shoppe" is a distortion of "Þe olde shoppe": English used to have a character for "th": Þ
6Erd8 TIL on Kenta Kobashi faced Kensuke Sasaki in a wrestling match where Yoshihiro Takayama, on commentary stated “I hope this never ends.” This was during a chop exchange fans were witness to. Over 180 chops across the chest were exchanged between the two men for nearly 5 minutes.
kOgGm TIL Late piano virtuoso Glenn Gould spent only 10% of his time at the keyboard in the studio and the rest working on the recordings itself by editing, splicing and supervising the record to achieve the best, absolute and note-perfect version of his playing.
bkMa TIL that the children’s song group “the wiggles” were originally the “hardest working punk band in australia”.