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TIL about The black nun of Moret, Louise Marie-Therese, a French nun whose origins are unknown with a lot of royal connections, who could have been the hidden daughter of the Queen of France

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e0LD4 TIL that in WW2, the Italian submarine “Leonardo Da Vinci” torpedoed the troopship “Empress of Canada”, while on a return journey. The ship sank and half of the resulting 392 deaths were Italian prisoners of war.
oj18 TIL in 1993 Egyptologists sent a small rover through one of the Air Shafts of the Great Pyramid. The rover came in contact with a stone door with two copper handles attached. To this day, the door has not been opened and now one knows where it leads
mxNKy TIL that the Finnish island of Aaland threatened to leave the EU if they were not permitted to continue to use and sell a tobacco product called ‘Snus.’ Snus is considered a major source of income for the island and part of their national heritage.
jgQa TIL TV Show “Seinfeld” made US$2.7 billion on reruns through June 2010 since it went off the air in 1998.
oJar TIL That Nintendo and Sony were partnering to make an add-on CD drive to the Super NES but then Nintendo broke the agreement, causing Sony to take the add-on and make their own system - the Playstation