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TIL the current British Royal Family’s lineage can be traced back only to the Norman Invasion of William the Conquerer, not Alfred the Great, the first King of England

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GxXj TIL that the ACLU has filed a lawsuit defending the KKK’s right to participate in Georgia’s Adopt-A-Highway program
6aRm TIL TIL 98 years ago Indian Meat Packing Company agreed to sponsor an employee team for $500. Three years later they dropped their ownership. The Packers are worth more than 1.4 billion today.
nVjd TIL that during the Cold War, the USSR was able to tell a Soviet passport was a forgery because the staples in real passports would corrode due to the poor quality of metal.
RZQ6 TIL in 1915 a group of 112 Belgian prisoners asked the German commandant permission to organize a bike race. Under strict rules and heavy oversight, the racers escaped from Belgium simply by continuing after they crossed the finish line.
vx8R TIL that American rock band Green Day had finished an album in 2003, but it was never released because the master tracks were stolen from the studio. Instead of re-recording the album, the band decided to write and record an entire new album, which turned out to be their hit record American Idiot