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TIL Pirate Richard Worley was the captain of the New York’s Revenge during the Golden Age of Piracy. After he captured his second ship, he named it the New York Revenge’s Revenge.

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5Ngp TIL Switzerland is prepared to blow up its roads, bridges, and tunnels and trigger blockading mountain slides and tree-falls if an invasion were to ever happen.
YpoEv TIL Henry VIII wanted to cancel his wedding with Anne of Cleves because he found her extremely ugly. He felt he was bamboozled by his advisors, who greatly exaggerated her beauty and brought him portraits of her that looked nothing like the real Anne in order to get him to agree to the marry her
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