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TIL of El Mahrousa, the official presidential Super-Yacht of Egypt. It was built in 1863 by English engineers, it's the oldest yet still the 9th largest Yacht in the world. It has carried three Egyptian leaders into exile, ended a dynasty, and carried the Egyptian delegation to the 1979 peace talks

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R5Kr7 TIL: That Denis Thatcher and his first wife, Margot Kempson, never actually lived together. After his demobilisation in 1946, Kempson told him she wanted a divorce having met someone else. Thatcher was so traumatised by the event that he refused to ever talk about the marriage or the separation.
xnWD TIL: When clasped by a predator, the spiny mouse is able to shed its skin, sometimes losing up to 60 percent of it’s skin in a single slough to escape. It can then regrow it over the course of a few days. It is the only known mammal to practice Autotomy, or self amputation.
rRrg1 TIL: In April, Dr. Ch@os, the man responsible for the causing power outages, taking down air traffic towers, and storing cyanide will no longer have his internet use monitored. He has promised to not commit crime again.
awDbL TIL For Raging Bull Robert De Niro trained over 1,000 rounds with Jake LaMotta and fought 3 amateur fights. Causing LaMotta to think Robert De Niro had what it took become a professional contender
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