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TIL That King Charles II of Spain and last of the Spanish Hapsburg rulers was so inbred that his grandmother was also his aunt and all of his great-grandparents were cousins.

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1b8r TIL After mature male bull elephants are sent off to fend for themselves they do not become lone wanderers detached from any community. The males travel together, drink together and form friendships that, like human relationships, may change with the seasons or last a lifetime.
E1pZX TIL when Pope John Paul II delivered a speech to the European Parliament, Ian Paisley shouted "I denounce you as the antichrist!" The former crown prince of Austria-Hungary, 77-year-old Otto von Habsburg, punched him in the face and pushed him out of the chamber.
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LQB69 TIL the first Actor of Asian Descent to win an Academy Award was an amateur actor, winning for his first movie. He also survived three terms in Khmer rouge's Concentration camps during Pol Pot's Regime.