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TIL Mughal Emperor Akbar faced rebellion from his clerics for entertaining Jesuits in his court.

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XoDE TIL in 2007 Richard Hammond abandoned his Porsche 911 after being caught up in traffic chaos caused by the floods to run 16 miles home for his daughter’s fourth birthday.
VB7P0 TIL the Book of Henryków (Księga henrykowska) contains the earliest known sentence written in Polish, dated 1270. Originally intended to document looted belongings during the Mongol invasion of Poland in 1241, the Latin chronicle gradually grew to include the monastery's history.
y8ow TIL a surviving eyewitness to Abraham Lincoln’s 1865 assassination gave an account of the event on TV in 1956.
9wKar TIL that loneliness is as bad for people's health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day
LQl0V TIL Anders Breivik, the Norwegian man who killed 77 people in 2011, sued Norway for inhumane treatment, including low-quality jail food, and won his case under the European human right standards.