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TIL that British Prime Minister, the Duke of Grafton, was a direct male-line [illegitimate] descendant of King Charles II.

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x6Lyo TIL that in the 84's Olympics, an athlete replaced herself with her twin sister to compete after an injury.
lombK TIL that the longest professional baseball game ever lasted 33 innings and over 8 hours. Players became delirious with exhaustion, it got so cold that people burned bats to keep warm, and the president of the league stopped the game at 4 a.m. The final score was 3-2 after play resumed a month later.
GAklJ TIL Renovation of the historical Battersea Power station in London cost £9bn (USD 10.8bn). It has luxury apartments, hotel, restaurants, and a roof top pool. One chimney has a glass elevator (lift 109) going to the top. Hotel rooms have vinyl record players, and of course Pink Floyd's Animals!
xVo1b TIL that a pine tree planted in 2004 in memory of former Beatle George Harrison in a Los Angeles park died after being infested by beetles.
eV6g TIL the Yugoslav army used microwave ovens to fool the NATO. Missiles would home in on any strong source of radio emission in the 400-10000 MHz range, exactly the range of household microwave ovens. In the next days, NATO pilots bombed microwave ovens placed in empty fields instead of Serbian tanks