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TIL the motto on the United Kingdom’s coat of arms is in French

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W7kLd TIL that a man who witnessed the Lincoln assassination as a small child actually made a live appearance on television. He died two months after it was filmed.
E1lEo TIL the Vatican City drinks more wine per person than anywhere else in the world. Its residents consume an average of 74 litres (105 bottles) over the course of a year. About double the amount drunk by the average person in France or Italy, and triple the quantity consumed in the UK.
YpvrA TIL: the guy who played the Nazi leader in Casablanca was also the inspiration for the Joker and a solid dude. Conrad Veidt was a star of German cinema who was fervently anti-Nazi. He moved to America with his jewish wife to create films to convince the US to join the war against the Axis.
MgRA TIL there is no evidence that iron maidens were invented in the Middle Ages or even used for torture. Instead they were pieced together in the 18th century from several artifacts found in museums in order to create spectacular objects intended for (commercial) exhibition.
LQXkd TIL that some whirlpools(eddies) in oceans can be as big as 90 miles (150 kilometers) in diameter.