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TIL that the British Royal Family are the largest landowners in the world. Followed by the Catholic Church and the Inuit People of Nunavut

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kJoyg TIL a Gameboy was stored in a barracks that was bombed in The Gulf War and it ran Tetris like nothing happened.
gXVA TIL that no one knows who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent was burned in a fire
JYVZk TIL On the set of “Big Fat Liar,” where John Cho played Hong Kong director Dusty Wang, he refused to do an accent because he did not want to do an accent in a children’s comedy where young people would be laughing inadvertently at an Asian stereotype
7rY4P TIL: Samuel Morse invented the telegraph after he received a letter of his wife’s failing health… after she’d died.
ojW TIL “urchin” is an old name for hedgehog, which explains how sea urchins got their name