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TIL King Charles III drives an Aston Martin that runs on Wine and Cheese.

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oxkr TIL Bakhtiyar Khilji, the Muslim general destroyed the ancient university and library of Nalanda in 1193 in hopes of uprooting Buddhism. The destruction of the library is considered responsible for the demise of ancient Indian scientific thought in Maths, Astronomy, Alchemy, and Anatomy.
dBWZ TIL the Roman emperor Nero took a liking to a young boy named Sporus, who he had castrated and married because he bore a resemblance to the emperor’s former wife, who Nero had allegedly murdered. After Nero’s death, Sporus took his own life out of humiliation.
pYRxe TIL Gorillaz' 'Clint Eastwood' isn’t an original riff and drum beat. It’s a preset called ‘Rock One’ on the Suzuki Omnichord autoharp
x7mb TIL it is illegal in the state of Texas to own more than six dildos
e04QE TIL the word ‘space’ was first used to reference the area beyond Earth's sky in John Milton's Paradise Lost in 1667.