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TIL that the founder of Lipton Tea, Sir Thomas Lipton, was a lifelong bachelor who had a secret relationship with his shop assistant, William Love

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emO6 TIL that when blown up to the same scales, Kansas is actually flatter than a pancake
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Egv9x TIL that two members of the French Royal family, Prince Philippe d’Orleans (Count of Paris) and his brother Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, served as officers in the Union Army during the American Civil War
gM17L TIL: that in 1903 a pair of nearly identical strangers ended up in the same prison in Kansas which helped fingerprinting become widely accepted by law enforcement agencies in the U.S.
xVeGb TIL 90% of all the scientists that have ever existed are alive today.