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TIL that Elizabeth I spent her reigning summers travelling with an entire royal entourage of 400-600 horse drawn carts. They travelled slowly, an average of 10-12 miles a day. Her visits to houses incurred significant expenses for the host, thus they weren’t always happy to have her stay.

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KOxgJ TIL Until the late 1970s, 80s, classical music received almost as much coverage as professional sports. Leonard Bernstein's 1943 concert was broadcast live on radio to millions of listeners, and was reviewed on the front page of the New York Times
9wAoG TIL One 16-year-old Titanic survivor at the time thought its sinking and evacuation was merely a normal procedure, although "a pretty hard way to get here." (to emigrate to the US)
l7aA5 TIL about the DIMI-S "Sexophone", a device made by ground-breaking synthesiser pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi in 1972, which allowed up to four people to generate sounds based on how they touched each other's bodies, and apparently only reached its full expressive range if everyone involved was naked
Dk0D TIL that in 1931, a 17 year old female baseball pitcher named Jackie Mitchell struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in the same exhibition game.
v1eWr TIL Wolves being reintroduced into Yellowstone demonstrates how crucial every member of an ecosystem is important to maintain balance. After 70 years without wolves, the reintroduction caused unanticipated positive change in Yellowstone’s ecosystem and even its physical geography.