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TIL Rose Leslie (Ygritte in Game of Thrones) grew up in Lickleyhead Castle, her family’s 15th century ancestral seat in Aberdeen Scotland. She is a descendant of Charles II.

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D1pjg TIL a man that killed his estranged wife, her daughter who was 14 months old & their son who was 4 with separate knives to not “cross contaminate” their blood & “allow demons inside them to live” & then plucked out his own eyeballs & ate them in prison was declared sane.
JYeL4 TIL that a week before the Rosa Parks incident, segregation on interstate buses was struck down after a black Woman Army Corps Private refused to give up her seat to a white Marine.
95XB TIL that the Ritz-Carlton has for many years given staff $2,000 of discretion to be used to solve any customer complaint in the manner the employee feels is appropriate.
ANagx TIL that the largest legal tender in the US was a $100,000 bill. It is currently illegal for an individual to be in possession of one.
ey15 TIL Chef Paul Prudhomme was struck by a .22-calibre bullet while cooking at a golf tournament, he thought it was a bee sting and kept on cooking.