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TIL that Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" was nominated for two Razzie Awards for Worst Actress and Worst Director

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RE97 TIL that when Queen Elizabeth’s children were pressured to evacuate to Canada during WWII, she declared, “The children won’t go without me. I won’t leave without the King. And the King will never leave.”
kJwAe TIL about Western Sahara, the last African colony without its independence. After the U.N. pressured Spain to give the colony up in the 1970s they agreed to joint governance with two neighboring countries, only to trigger an uprising by the region's residents. The government is still disputed today.
9YnNr TIL that Cyrillic (the alphabet used to write Russian) wasn't created by Greek monks Cyrill and Methodius. They created the Glagolitic script. A disciple of theirs created Cyrillic with a few Glagolitic letters.
y1LM TIL one of the adversities that the Napoleonic army faced in Russia was the fact that the buttons of their uniforms may have turned to dust. Tin was the major metal used to make buttons and the bonding structure of tin atoms begins to change when temperatures drop below 13°C
9YvlQ TIL the oldest living human-planted tree in the world with a known planting date is the sacred fig tree "Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi", planted in 288 BC.