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TIL that as the Queen of Jamaica, Elizabeth II is referred to as "Missis Queen" or "The Queen Lady"

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Vn5Z TIL that Sudoku Can Save Photographers from Copyright Theft
Y7RlZ TIL when the word "pussy" popped up in regular dialogue around the sixteenth century, it didn’t have a sexual connotation at all. It was used as a term of endearment to describe women in general and didn’t actually get sexual until the nineteenth century
ep5PE TIL Gen. George Custer, before the disastrous Battle of Little Bighorn, was warned by his own Native American scouts that the Lakota allied forces vastly outnumbered Custer's men. Custer ignored these warnings believing his well armed forces to be nigh invincible. He was dead within the day.
gMVnb TIL The Mesopotamian Empire and the Babylonian Empire were the first civilizations to introduce the use of sanitary sewerage system.
MegL8 TIL during the tornado outbreak of 1974, forecasters in Indiana, frustrated because they could not keep up with all of the simultaneous tornado activity, put the entire state under a blanket tornado warning. This was the only time in U.S. history that an entire state was under a tornado warning.