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TIL that David II, King of the Scots was four years old when he married Joan of the Tower, King Edward II of England’s daughter, who was seven

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X0vLr TIL Soap Was Once Made of Animal Fat and Wood Ashes
69Pm7 TIL of the 1862 Nueces Massacre in Texas, when 96 Confederate soldiers killed 37 German-Texan Unionists who were attempting to flee to Mexico, and slaughtering 9 Germans who were badly wounded in the fight, marking the end to overt German Unionist resistance in Texas for the remainder of the war.
woKJY TIL that in 1994, a 17-year-old boy scout named David Hahn attempted to build a nuclear reactor in a backyard shed at his mother's house in Commerce Township, Michigan. The experiment emitted measurable radiation and the EPA eventually declared the property a Superfund cleanup site.
GbXJ TIL: Man Stopped Growing At Six Months Old Is Now 21 And Only 23 Inches Tall
7rPYZ TIL there is a Banyon tree that is at least 250 years old, and takes up 3.5 acres of land.