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TIL an Australian court ruled that "cunt" is not an offensive word

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Wb6d TIL there was a secret fifth room mate in the Young Ones who appeared in every episode of Series one, and they’re creepy as fuck.
0w9mM TIL of Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, the eldest daughter of Wilhem, German Crown Prince, and Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.She was born with Down Syndrome, however, unlike other royal children with special needs, she was not hidden away and appeared in family photographs and at special events.
LQ0ZZ TIL that mad Swiss novelist Robert Walser hand-wrote his later novels in “Microscripts”, such difficult microscopic pencil script that it took years after his death to decipher them. It didn't help that he spent the last 3 decades of his life in a mental institution, suffering from schizophrenia.
Z879R TIL the Soviet Union and the United States were originally in talks to go to the moon together during the Cold War. Nikita Khrushchev was poised to accept the plan but then President Kennedy was assassinated. The Soviets did not trust Vice President Johnson, so Khrushchev rejected the plan.
8pN4 TIL when Hunter S. Thompson died, his ashes were shot out of a cannon by Johnny Depp to the tune of “Mr. Tambourine Man” by Bob Dylan