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TIL Ariel from the Little Mermaid is the only Disney princess to have had a child of her own.

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rgKe TIL During WW2 Joe Medicine Crow, a native American, completed all four feats required to be a war chief: touching an enemy without killing him, taking an enemy’s weapon, leading a war party and stealing 50 horses from the SS, singing a Crow honour song as he rode away.
a8wjZ TIL Timgad ruins are one of the best extant examples of the grid plan as used in Roman town planning and UNESCO World Heritage Site.
d8l7Q TIL any Texan who will be out of their county (not country) on voting day can get an absentee ballot.
woxko TIL Christopher Lee (known for his illustrious acting career spanning multiple decades, especially among younger generations for his roles as Saruman in Lord of the Rings and Count Dooku in Star Wars) was present at the last public guillotine execution in France in June 1939. He was 17 at the time.
e0Ad6 TIL when George Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, was shot dead his father commented "I am not surprised at all. I've expected it for quite some time." The party claimed the body over the parents, but when they wore swastikas at the funeral, the state cremated his body instead.