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TIL Elizabeth the First was gr*med and sxually harassed by her legal guardian Thomas Seymour when she was an adolescent; Seymour was later beheaded for treason

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N7rnQ TIL Handwriting experts suggest Czar Alexander I of Russia, who defeated Napoleon, faked his own death and reinvented himself as the monk Fyodor Kuzmich, who had noble manners, spoke several languages, and claimed to have forgotten his past.
b6WPa TIL mines around Spruce Pine, North Carolina are the source of the world's purest form of silicon sand. A series of geological processes that occurred 350m years ago caused the silicon to form almost without impurities. It is highly sought after and is probably in the device you are reading this on.
0dreR TIL the former CEO of Nissan fled Japan in 2019 by hiding in an audio equipment box
OYKg TIL that in British Medieval representations of the devil, he is portrayed with two penises so he can have sex in both orifices of a woman at the same time.
4ka8o TIL that people with schizophrenia are more likely to get grey or white hair at a young age.