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TIL that "ye olde shoppe" is a distortion of "Þe olde shoppe": English used to have a character for "th": Þ

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O1ke TIL in order for the OD scene in Pulp Fiction to seem as real as possible, Quentin Tarantino filmed John Travolta removing the needle as fast as he could. Then in editing they reversed the footage so it looked as if Travolta was slamming the needle into Uma Thurman’s chest.
nWXeB TIL about Sikkim, a Himalayan Kingdom that was independent for +300 years as recently as 1975, when the Chogyal, a Buddhist absolute monarch (except 1973-75) of Tibetan origin was desposed of in a referendum by his (mostly Hindu) subjects where the overwhelming majority (97%) voted to join India.
8a0nK TIL American architect Henry Murphy was in charge of designing the capital of China in 1928. Murphy proposed a master plan for Nanjing at the heart of which lay an axis with the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, along with ‘Capitol Hill’ and a pagoda
7rXXM TIL in 2013, a 9 year-old British girl passed through Turkish customs with a toy passport with gold teddy bears on the front that identified her as a unicorn. Her mother accidentally handed over the passport that the girl had made for her toy unicorn, and the customs offіcer accepted and stamped it
5VxOQ TIL Sutton's law of medicine is to go with the obvious diagnosis first. The law is based on a supposed interview with bank robber Willie Sutton where he explained why he robbed banks by saying "because that's where the money is."