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TIL that Queen Victoria’s journals are only 1/3 complete, as her daughter, Princess Beatrice, heavily censored them when she copied them by hand and burned the originals once the task was done

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kJ4B1 TIL Portland, OR was named after Portland, ME instead of Boston, MA based on the flip of a penny by two early residents
AD1E7 TIL about how videos can trick one's mind. This video made me honestly feel bamboozled and upset.
4XKK5 TIL 2,000 year old seeds were discovered inside an ancient jar in Israel 1963. They were planted in 2005 and a tree extinct for 1,800 years sprouted from the ground.
ZpXQY TIL: People paid to have their mail delivered to them until March 3rd, 1863 when the US Congress established free mail delivery to cities. New York City delivered residential mail 4 times daily until 1940. NYC reduced residential mail delivery to once daily (due to high costs) in 1950.
v1KE8 TIL an 18-year-old from the UK was arrested after attending a youth group session about dealing with anti-social behaviour, as he had an anti-social behaviour order banning him from congregating with 4 or more youths and the group was larger than 3.