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TIL that Betty White is older than Mickey Mouse.

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GYPr7 TIL: That the children of Princess Anne, the daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, carry no Royal Titles. They are still in the Royal line of succession but have no peerage titles because thier father was common born and refused a title upon marriage into the Royal Family.
yQ0KJ TIL Quokka mothers have spare babies in their womb in a suspended state of development as back-up in case tragedy befalls the older joey, such as the mum using it as a decoy to escape a predator
pYGMZ TIL that in 2010 Tennessee firefighters watched a family's home burn to the ground because they hadn't paid a 75$ firefighting subscription fee
DW6P TIL that when Giacomo Casanova was forty years old, he purchased a thirteen-year-old girl in St. Petersburg as a sexual slave
wL49o TIL that people called "Searchers of the Dead" worked in 16th century London, examining corpses to determine whether they died of plague. Mostly elderly women, they often died of the diseases they were searching for.