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TIL that King Æthelstan arranged marriages for several of his sisters to European royalty, including the future Holy Roman Emperor Otto I, making his court one of the most internationally connected in Anglo-Saxon England.

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D1eBY TIL that the International Space Station has been described as the most expensive single item ever constructed at $150 billion.
wLQ5E TIL that cats respond positively to human slow blinking and that the slow blink represents a ‘cat smile’ and break from an uninterrupted, threatening, stare
GAeQ TIL the Ramones took their band name from the pseudonym Paul McCartney would use when checking into hotels, Paul Ramon.
X0vwR TIL Ciabatta bread was only recently invented in 1982
P1aVZ TIL about the Battle of the Atlantic during WWII. “In the first four months of 1942, German U-boats ravaged the shipping lanes off North Carolina, sinking almost 40 ships during that period. It is an often overlooked piece of American history.”