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TIL Kim Jong-Il called his hairstyle the “speed battle cut”

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ZpjvB TIL about the Glorious Revolution of 1688 deposition of King James II by William of Orange and James' daughter Mary. Initially supported by the majority when he became King in 1685, his policies quickly eroded support and by 1688 the large resistance invited William and Mary to take the throne.
x4dD TIL a 4chan prank resulted in VH1’s Save the Music program donating $10,000 to buy musical instruments for Boston’s Horace Mann School for the Deaf.
mLLE TIL that “biweekly” means BOTH “twice a week” and “every two weeks”
xV1Lg TIL that the city of London is still paying rent of a sharp axe, a billhook, 6 horseshoes, and 61 nails to the Queen on a property leased in 1211
QJX1M TIL that in the 60s, the CIA sponsored a Harvard study where an undergraduate student was humiliated and subjected to "brutalizing psychological experiments". The student who had the worse reaction to the experiment was Ted Kaczynski who later became the Unabomber.