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TIL There is a conspiracy theory, in Pakistan, that Malala Yousafzai was a spy for the US/CIA and they, along with her father, orchestrated the attempted murder. Bonus fact, supposedly Robert de Niro was the shooter and disguised as an Uzbek Homeopathic doctor.

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GY9JN TIL Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth's younger sister, almost married future Canadian prime minister John Turner. "It was “instant attraction … fairy tale stuff” with the young bachelor-lawyer and there were rumours about a “secret visit” to London and an order from the Queen to stop seeing him
QJaDa TIL about the Bronze Age collapse, in which the Sea People invaded the Mediterranean. In 50 years the Mycenaeans, Kassites, and Hittites collapsed, while Egypt was crippled economically. Trade routes were disrupted, literacy was severely reduced andcities were destroyed or abandoned permanently.
oewW TIL That a Korean man during WWII was conscripted to fight for the Japanese, was caught by the Russians, forced to fight for the Russians, captured and forced to fight for the Germans, and finally captured by American troops at D-Day. He eventually moved and passed away in Illinois.
a8YOA TIL of RAS syndrome, the act of appending a word to the end of an abbreviated term that already exists at the tail of it. e.g. ATM (automated teller machine) machine, PIN (personal identification number) number and amusingly, RAS (redundant acronym syndrome) syndrome
0dbG5 TIL while sailing in the Vendée Globe (a solo around-the-world race), Tony Bullimore ran into winds in the Southern Ocean that reached 100mph, capsizing his boat. He managed to find an air pocket in the upside-down vessel in pitch darkness & survived there for 4 days with only a chocolate bar to eat