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TIL the head of Henry IV was found in an attic in 2010.

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5mLR TIL that the term “goody two shoes” comes from a children’s story about an orphan girl who was so poor she could only afford one shoe
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JYyxQ TIL the Queen's Engineering Society's motto "Quis Dolor Cui Dolium" translates to "Who suffers who has a cask of wine?" This motto was devised in 1963 to lend some Latin dignity to the Society's informal English motto, "What the hell as long as there's free beer."
vPjyB TIL in Alien (1979) the blue laser lights used in the alien ship's egg chamber were borrowed from The Who. The band was testing out the lasers for their stage show in the soundstage next door.
69dgX TIL some wasps can recognize each other’s faces