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TIL that the alumni network for Miss Porter’s School - with wealthy graduates such as Jackie Kennedy and Lilly Pulitzer - is called “The Ancients”

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Brnwx TIL: Thanks to a 1665 idea of King Charles II (and to river-meandering), there's a cut-off 5-mile lobe of Kentucky that's not connected to any of Kentucky; it's all surrounded by other states (Missouri & Tennessee). Fewer than 20 people live in this "bubble" of KY ("Bubbleland" AKA "Kentucky Bend").
GXX4 TIL that in America’s Terrorist List, most are American protesters against environmental destruction.
6EXd8 TIL Mehmed the Conqueror requested his father, who had abdicated earlier, to come back and claim the throne in time of trouble by saying: "If you are the Sultan, come and lead your armies. If I am the Sultan I hereby order you to come and lead my armies."
p8Ax8 TIL that in the Book of Job, Job does not maintain his faith in God's goodness — he even repents for his doubt.
JY4LV TIL Frances Clayton (nee’ Clalin) disguised herself as a man to fight Union side in the Civil War in April 1862. She went by the name Jack Williams. Her husband died fighting next to her in December 1862