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TIL The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, also known as the Seven Wonders of the World or simply the Seven Wonders, is a list of seven notable structures present during classical antiquity. The first known list of seven wonders dates back to the 2nd–1st century BC.

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NXYMe TIL There was once a king who had never been attracted to women, one day, he saw a beautiful beggar and fell in love with her. He brought her to his palace and made her sit on his thrown and then kneeled before her and asked her to be his queen.

R57Ya TIL of John Graham, who hated his mother so much he hid 25 sticks of dynamite and a timed detonator in her suitcase before a flight. It was one of the first ever attacks of a commercial flight; all 44 aboard died.

mMMo TIL of the “Coffee Cantata”, a comic opera by J.S. Bach about a young woman who drank absurd amounts of coffee to annoy her father, who wouldn’t let her marry

oPNL TIL in 1990 Donald Trump threatened to sue the stock broker firm Janney Montgomery Scott after an analyst made negative comments regarding the financial prospects of the Taj Mahal. The analyst was fired, refusing to withdraw the statement. The Taj Mahal declared bankruptcy later that same year.

v1rKx TIL that at 23 years old, Isaac Newton went into quarantine due to the bubonic plague. During his time in quarantine, he proved the refractive properties of prisms, invented calculus, and was famously hit on the head by an apple.