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TIL that on Friday the 13ths fewer accidents and reports of fire and theft occur, because people are more careful or just stay home.

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nWNLW TIL that George Curzon, the future Viceroy of India, had a wealthy but miserable childhood which included a demented freak of a governess who made him wear a hat with cruel and hateful insults written on it in public.
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