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TIL, during a visit to Egypt in 2012, Hillary Clinton was pelted with tomatoes and shoes, while the protesters chanted “Monica, Monica”

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d89o7 TIL In June of Year Without Summer (1816), a group of writers had to stay indoors in Switzerland because of “incessant rain”. As a result of a contest to write the scariest story, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, Lord Byron wrote A Fragment, a precursor to Dracula
6E6GW Today I learned about the parrot who would warn their drug dealing owners when the police show up. After the parrot was detained by police, he took the 5th and didn't squawk a word.
X0mrR TIL that there is a city in the US called Rome.
Y7BAB TIL Queen Elizabeth I required 600 horse carts to carry everything she needed for her summer excursions to the countryside. She’d stay with the local Nobles, but if their castle was too small, the nobility would get kicked out to make room. Of course you wouldn’t turn her down, or expect payment.
JYakm TIL Brazil's Kayapo people rejected money from dambuilding companies. "We have decided that we do not want a single penny of your dirty money... Our river does not have a price, our fish that we eat does not have a price, and the happiness of our grandchildren does not have a price"