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TIL in 1750, Frederick II, the Great, King of Prussia, sent to his secretary, Claude Étienne Darget, a letter in which he wrote: “My hemorrhoids affectionately greet your cock”

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yV8gw TIL Mary de Bohun was a 14th Century English heiress. To protect an inheritance, her brother-in-law tried to make her a nun. Instead, in a secret plot, she married the future King Henry IV at age 11 and gave birth to six children. She died in childbirth at age 26.
MeKla TIL More Than Half Of American Adults Still Have Their Childhood Stuffed Animal
BreYd TIL that Evolution of grass led to the evolution of humans
R7ax4 TIL the canonical reason for most of the alien races to be humanoid in Star Trek is an ancient humanoid species seeding the oceans of many worlds with DNA codes 4.5 billion years before the start of the series, directing the evolution of life towards a physical pattern similar to their own.
JYPw1 TIL that Dutch people, currently the tallest population in the world, actually used to be the shortest population in Europe just 150-200 years ago