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TIL that London is still paying rent to the Queen on a property leased in 1211 and the rent consists of 2 knives, 6 horseshoes and 61 nails

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7rZEr TIL that Queen Victoria’s journals are only 1/3 complete, as her daughter, Princess Beatrice, heavily censored them when she copied them by hand and burned the originals once the task was done
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