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TIL that Calvin and Hobbes' personalities match those with the 17th century philosophers of the same name.

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dD7y9 TIL an autograph Beethoven manuscript was missing for 115 yrs until a librarian at a seminary in Philadelphia stumbled across it in 2005. It contains annotations by Beethoven which provide insight into his thought processes in the months before his death when he was deaf. It was sold for £1.1 milion
p8DAO TIL Alec Baldwin, Marilyn Monroe, Clint Eastwood, Sally Field, Richard Gere, Katherine Hepburn, and Ashley Judd are all descendants of original Mayflower settlers.
GJjg TIL the original London Bridge was sold to the Chairman of an oil company, dismantled in Britain, and completely re-assembled in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
ALRB TIL an adopted man in Michigan searched for his birth mother for 4 years before finding out that she worked at the same Lowe’s store that he worked at. Neither of them knew.
VM6rQ TIL feudalism was practiced until April 9, 2008 on one of the Channel Islands in the UK, Sark. It was a fiefdom of the larger nearby island of Guernsey and administered by a Seigneur, who was a vassal to the land's owner – the Queen of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II.