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TIL that the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire has been a protected forest since 1066, when the Normans reserved it for royal hunting.

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Bg15e TIL Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira wanted to have a perfect daughter. Her daughter Hildegart read at 2, spoke 4 languages at 8, joined law school at 13, becoming professor there at 18, writing on socialism and sexuality, writing to figures. On 1933 her mother shot her
QNvkd TIL that while the Selective Service System only requires men between the ages of 18-25 to register for a possible draft, US federal law considers all able-bodied men between the ages of 17-44 as part of the militia, meaning all men in that age range can be conscripted.
rNlB0 TIL about Hornussen, a Swiss golf-baseball game in which the player hits a high speed rubber projectile at a group of placard-carrying opponents.
Oa5Y TIL that, in traditional Canadian fashion, Canadian lawyers refer to their clients as “my friend” instead of “my client” while in court.
NeBJ TIL Steven Spielberg was an executive producer on 70 episodes of ‘Pinky and the Brain’.