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TIL Jamaica is divided into three counties: Cornwall, Middlesex and Surrey.

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8pwZ TIL, the Sex Pistol’s “God Save the Queen”, was released during her silver jubilee, was considered controversial by the BBC and its spot on the top hits charts was left as an empty space
1aw9r TIL that in 1842 Abraham Lincoln was challenged to a duel by political rival, James Shields. Due to his towering height, Lincoln chose broadswords. When the day of the duel arrived Lincoln demonstrated his strength by chopping a nearby tree branch in half, causing Shields to back out and apologize.
P1mvO TIL a Catholic monk once wrote an angry letter to the cardinals during a 2 year papal election. Upon receiving it, they immediately chose to elect him; he tried fleeing his election but accepted under pressure. One of his only acts was to decree that popes could resign, and he did so 1 week later.
W598 TIL, Theodore Roosevelt referred to Thomas Paine, who came up with the terms “United States of America,” as a “filthy little atheist.”
kkg7 TIL in 2001, the United States Court of Appeals upheld the right of Alice Randall to publish a parody of ‘Gone with the Wind’ called 'The Wind Done Gone’, which told the same story from the point of view of Scarlett O'Hara’s slaves, who were glad to be rid of her.