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TIL that The Ivy League is an American athletic conference of the sports teams of 8 colleges, not a title given to these colleges on any academic basis

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7rKn7 TIL that four bodies of members of the Romanov royal family of Imperial Russia, after execution in 1918, were buried at a Russian Orthodox site in Beijing, China, the 1920s. One of the two sites believed to hold the bodies, a cemetery, has since been made into a city park with a golf course.
g8e9 TIL there were two versions of the Dennis the Menace comic, released at the same time, on different sides of the atlantic, by different authors, with no plagiarism involved.
X0PXj TIL about George Catlin, a 19th century US lawyer who left his profession and traveled the West, living with over 50 indigenous tribes, learning about their cultures, and painting beautiful portraits of them.
PYMnV TIL that all thoroughbred horses are given the birth date of Jan. 1 regardless of when they were really born.
nKQB TIL: Shelly Miscavige, wife of head Scientologist David Miscavige, has been ‘missing’ since 2007