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TIL Clyde Frog was a real TV show character in the 1970s, and not just one of Eric Cartman's stuffed animals.

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D1Pyp TIL Bayezid II, an Ottoman Sultan that took in displaced Jews from the Spanish Inquisition, reportedly taunted the King of Spain by saying: "You venture to call Ferdinand a wise ruler, he who has impoverished his own country and enriched mine!"
4k1N TIL that the “born of a virgin” prophecy in the Old Testament was actually an improper translation. The original text actually read “young woman” not “virgin.”
omLA TIL in 2012 a 14 year old North Korean schoolgirl drowned in a flood trying to save portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
wo8AW TIL the Aerosmith song Walk This Way was inspired by the "walk this way" joke from Young Frankenstein.
R7DZ9 TIL when the United States asked to buy the lease for their London embassy, the Duke of Westminster agreed to sell it on the condition that the United States return to his family the state of Virginia, which had been confiscated from them during the War of Independence. The United States declined.