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TIL that when King Alfonso of Castile died of bubonic plague on 27 March 1350, he became the only reigning monarch to die in The Black Death.

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7roL7 TIL That J. R. R. Tolkien began work on The Hobbit one day early in the 1930s, when he was marking School papers. He found a blank page. Suddenly inspired, he wrote the words, “In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.”
pYAJA TIL that despite being besieged virtually continuously through more than three years of civil war, Plymouth never fell to the enemy.
jmDR TIL that if you are still Single at the age of 25 in Denmark your closest friends hit you with cinnamon.
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NXA8N TIL in 2015 a plane crashed into the home of the neighbors of Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney in Plainville, Massachusetts. Three people died in the crash.