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TIL about Viganella, the Italian Village that Brought the Sun Down to the Valley

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ADn9o TIL that Henry George's treatise on economics "Progress and Poverty", which seeks to explain why poverty exists even within advanced and wealthy societies, sold over 3 million copies in the first 10 years after its publication, making it more popular than every book in the 1890s except for the Bible
16KJ7 TIL: In 1355, Portuguese King Afonso IV had his son Pedro’s mistress, Inês de Castro, decapitated in front of her children to end their romance. When Pedro became king, he had her killers’ hearts publicly ripped out—saying they had pulverized his own.
v78B TIL when Christopher Reeves was preparing for the role of Superman, he went from bench pressing 40 pounds to 320.
Z8G0R TIL Riley Keough is Elvis Presley’s granddaughter and was Michael Jackson’s stepdaughter. She admitted that she doesn’t "think about it, ever" and she sold a Disney watch Michael Jackson gave her
QNyNX TIL that Scots is not just a dialect of English, but a proper language with its own spelling. For example, “efter aw I’v duin for ye” is Scots for “after all I’ve done for you.”