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TIL despite Henry VIII's difficulties to produce a heir, he had several illegitimate children and only acknowledged one.

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yQpv8 TIL of Operation Monopoly, which was a covert plan by the FBI to build a secret tunnel underneath the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C. to gather secret intelligence. It was largely a technical failure and was compromised by FBI double agent Robert Hanssen to the Soviets.
j661N TIL Polish craftsmen arrived in colonial America before the Pilgrims did
KeN6 TIL Jules Verne wrote the novel “Paris in the Twentieth Century” back in 1863 and described a world of glass skyscrapers, high-speed trains, cities of elevator-equipped, gas-fuelled cars, subways, and a worldwide communications network.
ep48k TIL Romeo and Juliet Law in Utah has a 7-10 year gap. 😲
YpDdZ TIL a British mathematician William Shanks famously took 15 years to calculate π to 707 digits, but made a mistake in the 528th digit, rendering all subsequent digits incorrect.