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TIL Queen Elizabeth declined the opportunity to sit on the Iron Throne on set in Belfast, due to a little known rule that she may not sit on foreign thrones.

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Wk5DB TIL in 1968 Mao Zedong received a box of 40 mangoes from Pakistan. They were taken on a tour of China and became part of Chinese propaganda. A dentist that compared the mangoes to sweet potatoes in appearance was executed.
0wK7y TIL: Rome was basically a ghost town during the Middle Ages. After the fall of the West-Roman empire, the population of Rome dropped from 1MILLION in 330AD to just 20k in 650AD. The population remained roughly the same till ca.1600AD.
vAYx TIL Cadbury won a 1909 libel suit against a publication for mentioning their delay in ceasing cacao purchase from countries with slave labor. The jury awarded one-fourth of a penny.
69ygZ TIL that a family tree, made from human hair, made in the mid-19th century, is on display at the Old State Capitol in Frankfort, KY.
D1O4r TIL Nepal, a tiny Himalayan nation, contributed almost 200,000 men and £1,000,000 to the British government during WW1