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TIL of Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians. Eldest daughter of Alfred the Great who ruled the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia and played a key role in conquering the Danelaw.

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VM6QZ TIL that the First brown bear in 150 years has been seen in a national park in northern Spain
ADpm4 TIL that although 20 US Presidents served in the military and most of them during war time, only President Kennedy was awarded a Purple Heart.
kJJ94 TIL about the battle of chosin reservoir, which was fought during the Korean War at temperatures as cold as 36 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit)
kaBd TIL Greedo’s lines in Episode IV aren’t unintelligible nonsense: he’s actually speaking a form of a language called Quechua, which has almost 9 million native speakers
dEbd TIL that ‘the wave’ was first brought to world-wide attention during the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, and for many people living outside of North America, this was the first time they had ever seen the phenomenon - English speakers outside of North America refer to it as the “Mexican wave”