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TIL Queen Elizabeth II is descended from the Prophet Muhammad

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pYEjO TIL Hollywood’s shortest marriage was between Jean Acker and Rudolph Valentino. After the wedding ceremony, Acker locked Valentino out of their honeymoon suite. He left after 20 minutes.
xVYB1 TIL: about France's almost revolution in may of 68, where 1/3rd of the workforce, and 22% of the total population protested preventing the government from working, and leading the president DeGaulle to flee without anyone in the knowing his location, only ending with an armed occupation of Paris
R7Wlj TIL the last US President to fluently speak a foreign language was FDR (French and German).
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0KOv TIL International Women’s Day was first celebrated in the Soviet Union and used to be called International Working Women’s Day until 1975