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TIL that gambling sites and betting odds are better at predicting election results than polls.

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Meg8a TIL that there is a theory that Cinderella's unique glass slipper was not a case of confusion between the French words vair (fur) and verre (glass), but actually a deliberate innuendo, since the prince had the right to "try on the fur slipper of all the maidens in the kingdom". (Droit de seigneur)
jNrxX TIL It took 6 months and a cost of £125,000 for Scotland to arrive at new slogan, which was 'Welcome to Scotland'
awyOZ TIL: In 1994 an Airbus A310 crashed because of the pilot letting his 12 year old and 16 year old children pilot the plane, killing all 75 passengers and crew.
l76gK TIL Robert Oppenheimer's brother Frank founded the Exploratorium Science Museum in San Francisco
kOdZm TIL as a child, Joaquin Bottom travelled South America with his family after they joined religous cult Children of God. After learning the truth of the group, the family moved back the States and changed their last name to Phoenix.