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TIL that Prince Harry owns an Olympic racehorse named Usain Colt

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lo8D7 TIL Australian sleepy lizards are monogamous for life and grieve if they lose their partner.
OnWg TIL that the President only receives, on average, 500 death threats a month.
7g8r TIL The Molotov bread basket was a high-explosive incendiary bomb used on Finland that was named after Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, after he claimed Russia was not dropping bombs on Finland, but merely airlifting food to starving Finns.
gMYoX TIL that shark teeth and tastebuds develop from the same stem cells in an embryonic shark’s mouth, and hence hundreds of millions of years ago teeth may have first evolved from tastebuds
a8E60 TIL the Philippines are so named after the Spanish King Philip II, and the inhabitants are called ‘Filipino’ due to the native spelling of his name, being ‘Felipe’.