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TIL that the name Buffy from the show Buffy The Vampire Slayer was the password for the Facebook phone in 2011

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640X TIL that a man broke into Buckingham Palace. While eating cheddar cheese, he viewed the royal portraits, sat on the throne for a while, and drank half a bottle of wine before he became tired and left.
woLvP TIL that Rwanda is the safest country in Africa, despite notoriously known having a genocide 20 years ago. Rwanda is even among the safest countries in the world and even safer than Denmark, Finland and Norway
8dgG TIL The White Ship disaster, 1120, in which drowned William Adelin, the only legitimate son and heir of King Henry I of England, his half-sister Matilda, and his half-brother Richard, leading to a succession crisis and a period of civil war in England known as the Anarchy.
EvXo TIL a study showed that US public opinion on policies has a “minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact” on the chance a bill will become law. Contrarily, economic elite’s opinions have substantial impact and high correlation with policy change.
Z8Ev TIL: Ancient Spartans bathed baby boys in red wine, an experience so traumatic that many babies died from the stress and pain.