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TIL King Henry VIII of England had servants called "Grooms of Stool", who wiped him clean after he visited the toilet.

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4ko6X TIL that due to the way 1912-era wireless telegraphs worked, when they found obscure second-class Titanic passenger Niqula Nasrallah’s remains the press briefly believed they were those of internationally famous millionaire John Jacob Astor, who’d been in first class.
p8Wwp TIL Lidl The German supermarket chain has been involved in over 20 controversies, such as putting additives in meat to avoid salmonella testing, unauthorized surveillance of its employees, as well as being awarded with The Big Brother award for acting almost like slave masters towards its employees.
BrA5d TIL the first submarine attack on a ship occurred in 1864, when the CSS Hunley sank the sloop-of-war USS Housatonic using a spar torpedo, a primitive form of torpedo that was, in essence, a bomb on the end of a stick encased in a motor boat.
rRQ51 TIL three cows that were swept off an island in North Carolina during Hurricane Dorian were found alive on a different island. Cape Lookout National Seashore Park officials say they believe the three stranded cows swam up to five miles.
oeeA TIL Kevin Smith was hired by Warner Brothers to write the script for a Superman movie. He was forced to write Superman without the power of flight and He had to fight a giant spider. The movie would’ve starred Nicolas Cage.