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TIL on why he’s never visited Russia, Prince Philip (the Queens husband) replied - ‘I’d like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.’

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x6Vmg TIL - Hummel figurines were based on the paintings of Berta Hummel, later known as Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel. Early in life she enrolled in Munich’s famed State School of Applied Arts n art history, life drawing, watercolor and oil painting, and textile design graduating top of her class.
8aJdX TIL that some ancient sling bullets excavated from the city of Athens, Greece were inscribed with the word "ΔΕΞΑΙ" (dexai), which translates to "catch!"
XE7BE TIL of Patty Cannon who was notorious for leading a gang that kidnapped free blacks and sold them back into slavery in what was known as the Reverse Underground Railroad. In 1829, she was arrested for murdering a slave owner and stealing his $15,000.
xVxOw TIL that Prince was supposed to sing the hook on Kendrick Lamar's "Complexion (A Zulu Love). Prince heard and loved the record, and the concept of the record got both of them talking until they realized they didn't record anything and they ran out of time in the studio.
bdMp TIL of the word “dumbsize”: to reduce the staff numbers of a company to such low levels that work can no longer be carried out effectively.