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TIL that Queen Victoria's coronation was beset with problems. The coronation ring was painfully forced on to the wrong finger, an elderly Lord fell down the stairs while paying homage to her, and a confused bishop wrongly told her that the ceremony was over.

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YEY7 TIL that once the British 1881 census was compiled, officials noted an alarming rise in the number of individuals being reported as “deaf and dumb”. After enquiries were made, it transpired that many enumerators had recorded babies as being deaf and dumb simply because they could not speak.
D1DjD TIL red kiwi fruit have been spawned
OGgyY TIL that the Sacré-Cœur Basilica in Paris was considered so ugly by some that there was a plan to put up a full-sized Statue of Liberty in front to hide it.
dZR8 TIL Norway has no minimum wage, however Mcdonald’s workers make between 95 - 140+ kroner ($16-24USD) per hour depending on their age.
AEol TIL that Eugene Shoemaker, who co-discovered comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, died in a car crash on his way to see comet Hale-Bopp. Some of his ashes were taken to the moon in 1999, making him the only person to be buried on a celestial body outside Earth.