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TIL: Before he dropped it, Prince Phillip’s surname was Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

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KxlG TIL of The Thing - a listening device in a carving of the Great Seal of the United States. A gift from the USSR to the US, it hung in the embassy for 7 years. It contained no electronics and would activate when a radio signal of the correct frequency was transmitted to it.
GYl7j TIL that the USA does not have an official language at the federal level. English is only the official language of 32 states.
Kdn4 TIL: Today I learned that the new British citizenship test demands knowledge of Monty Python and the Beatles
b66Ea TIL The 1836 Independent Republic of Texas included land as far north as what is now Wyoming.
OoMo7 TIL The English subtitles for Pan's Labyrinth were translated and written by Guillermo del Toro himself. He no longer trusts translators after having encountered problems with his previous subtitled movies.