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TIL that King Charles I of England, Scotland & Ireland is considered a martyr by High Church Anglicans for his refusal to cede his sovereignty over the Church of England to Parliament—which his apologists argue sealed his fate of being executed at his trial

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jNMAa TIL that some owls keep blind snakes as pets. They feed on parasitic larvae, and a study conducted by Baylor University scientists found that Eastern Screech-Owl chicks grew faster and healthier in nests kept parasite-free by these “domesticated blind snakes”.
Ddkj TIL the Walton family of Walmart own more wealth than the combined bottom 40 percent of America
RMNa TIL on average, people speak 16,000 words daily
0J0y TIL That Tommy Pickles’ mother was Russian-Jewish American. This means that Tommy Pickles and Dil Pickles were Kosher Pickles.
oa7r TIL that Freud actually named the id, the ego and the superego the It, the I and the Over-I, which were more or less self-explanatory, but his translator latinized them, making them less accessible.