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TIL that almonds are a member of the peach family.

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YpAVP TIL The modern conspiracy - The Illuminati, was an art project/protest in the late 60's by a political theorist and a staffer at Playboy to show the public how ridiculous and disempowering it was to think a group of secretive people controlled the world.
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OGZ9g TIL Catherine Parr, the last wife of Henry VIII, was the first woman to publish an original work under her own name, in English, in England. After publishing her first book anonymously, she published Prayers or Meditations under her own name in 1545, during her time as Queen consort.
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