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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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XEx18 TIL that the Oxford Junior Dictionary removed around 50 words that have to do with the natural world, in order to replace them with more "modern" words for today's tech-savvy children. Some of the removed words include acorn, dandelion, heron, newt, and otter.
9YdeB TIL that in 1997 Guillermo del Toro's father was kidnapped for ransom and his friend James Cameron withdrew $1 million in cash from his bank account and paid it.
P1Zpn TIL when Anthony Quinn was filming The Guns of Navarone he was so taken by the location shooting of Rhodes, an island in Greece, that he bought property there and there is an area still called Anthony Quinn Bay.
GADjg TIL a certain type of sherry wine can have a sugar content greater than 450g/L, over 4x that of Coca-Cola
JlLk TIL the two biggest private prison organizations in the US have clauses in their contracts that require the prisons to stay at least 90% full at all times.