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TIL Tim Curry was an avid horticulturist, even planting a garden for his famous friend Freddie Mercury.

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rwv4 TIL, the cairn terrier (Toto) has been proposed as the state dog of Kansas
xVRLg TIL When she married Charles II of England in 1662, Portugal’s Catherine of Braganza brought tea with her and drank it every day out of habit. Until she arrived, people only drank tea as a heath tonic instead of a social activity.
D1alD TIL in 1907 a 9,317 mile automobile race from Peking to Paris was held after a French newspaper asked if anyone could prove their claim that if a man has a car, he can go anywhere. The race was held despite the race committee cancelling the race and the winner won a bottle of champagne.
pv1p TIL that due to a perfect combination of depth, altitude and temperature bodies that drown in Lake Tahoe rarely surface OR decompose.
nlN9 TIL in 1944 by a huge coincidence ,a crossword puzzle was printed with answers all containing D-Day operation “code names”, which sent MI-5 into a panic thinking their invasion plans had been discovered.