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TIL Ariel is the only Disney princess to have a child
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TIL that after France joined the American Revolution, Britain offered freedom from all taxation and unconditional pardon in exchange for peace, but this was rejected because independence was now an attainable goal
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TIL after losing a son and extreme financial hardships, the song "It Is Well With My Soul" was written by Spafford while on his way to meet his grieving wife as he passed by the area where his four daughters had recently died from a collision in the Atlantic Ocean.
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TIL There is a real life Hogwarts school in Poland. For $384, you can learn at the “College of Wizardry”, an epic 4 day LARP event where you will learn spells, be sorted into a house, interact with magical creatures and stay in a replica of the Hogwarts castle.
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TIL that tally sticks were used for hundreds of years to record financial transactions. When workmen were ordered to dispose of old sticks they accidentally burned down the Palace of Westminster.
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TIL that Joel Silver, producer of The Matrix Trilogy, Lethal Weapon, and Die Hard helped invent Ultimate Frisbee in high school