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X6dX TIL that Harlech Castle in Wales was the sight of the longest siege in the history of the British Isles, where Lancastrian forces held out against Yorkist forces for 7 years.
0wE4p TIL Devonte Hart, the African American child famously shown hugging a police officer during the Ferguson Riots, was killed when his adoptive parents purposely drove off a 100 foot cliff.
EkDW TIL the first ever selfie was taken by Robert Cornelius, an amateur chemist and photography enthusiast from Philadelphia, in 1839. On the back he wrote “The first light Picture ever taken. 1839.”
7rjdr TIL that during Pol Pot's regime, average life expectancy in Cambodia in 1977 was 18.91 years.
Eabd TIL “Town Destroyer” was a nickname given to George Washington by Iroquois Native Americans in 1753.