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TIL Confucius, Buddha, Sun Tzu, Pythagoras and Leonidas were all alive at the same time

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EGbV TIL that the Queen owns all unmarked swans in open water and that she is the “officially appointed ‘Swan Keeper’ of England.”
NXd48 TIL Flat adverbs, where the adjective and adverb have the same form, used to be much more common in the 18th century until a bunch of grammarians decided adverbs must end in -ly. Examples of surviving flat adverbial usage today include “sit tight” and “go slow”.
6E18W TIL New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine, published between 1935 and 1947, was the first American comic-book series to feature solely original material rather than reprints of newspaper comic strips and the first publication of the company that would become DC Comics
NXVOE TIL Red Kangaroos are the Animal that Grows the Most Over Its Lifespan
E1nbV TIL Rosa Parks didn't actually refuse to sit in the back of the bus. She was sitting in the back of the bus but refused to give up her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled.