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TIL The Queen of England still maintains an official “champion” to fight on her behalf in duels.

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DQB5J TIL Londons Stock Exchange was started in the 17th Century in a Coffee House in the City of London’s Change Alley
v15j7 TIL Lula oil field in Brazil is considered to be the western hemisphere's largest oil discovery of the last 30 years.
QJy0M TIL that when 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' was screened for CBS execs, they told the creators “We’ll play it once and that will be all. Good try.” A drunk animator stood up in the back of the room and shouted 'It's going to run for a hundred years.' It was recently shown for the 52nd year in a row.
grwEX TIL that Tim Burton did not actually direct The Nightmare Before Christmas, because he was directing Batman Returns.
kOxL1 TIL during the siege of Leningrad, a group of Russian botanists holed up in a secret vault starved to death rather than consume the greatest collection of seeds they were guarding for a post-apocalyptic world.