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TIL Chris Brown is currently banned from entereng the UK, Australia, and New Zealand due to his criminal history.

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YpyDx TIL: In 2010, a boa constrictor was shown to have reproduced asexually via parthenogenesis. This is only the third genetically confirmed case of consecutive virgin births of viable offspring from a single female within any vertebrate lineage.
jwjM TIL Singer James Blunt auctioned his sister off on eBay as ‘a damsel in distress’ when she was unable to get to a funeral. The winning bidder picked her up in a helicopter. They dated for 3 years and are now married.
M7QAA TIL That Pope Pius II wrote a best-selling erotic novel called "The Tale of Two Lovers" prior to his election as Pope. He is also known to have fathered two illegitimate children.
4XX8a TIL the oldest garden that has been tended to continuously is 973 years old, in China, and one of 50 surviving gardens called the Classical Gardens of Suzhou, founded in 6th Century.
LkZVv TIL that in 3000 BC the North Star was not Polaris, but a star called Thuban, because the axis of the earth was pointed in a different direction back then. This is because of the precession of equinoxes speeding and slowing down of the earth's spin through imperceptible intervals.