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TIL the fast-paced style of speaking at auctions is unique to America yet nobody knows where/how it originated.

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xVwZB TIL before any details of Pixar’s ‘Soul’ were public, a Black chauffeur told Kemp Powers (the film’s co-writer & co-director) that he knew Pixar was making a Black movie because he had never driven so many Black people to Pixar before.
jaAp TIL the US Marshals arrested more than 100 criminals in a massive sting by mailing them all free (fake) tickets to a Redskins game
woJEP TIL Anne, Queen of Great Britain had at least 17 pregnancies over a 17-year period & had miscarried or given birth to stillborn children at least 12 times. Of her 5 liveborn children, 4 died before the age of two & her sole surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died at age eleven.
awVab TIL About Elizabeth Báthory, A Hungarian noble who was alleged to have tortured and murdered 650 young girls between 1585 and 1609 and bathed in their blood. She is deemed the most prolific murderer of all time.
GA9WJ TIL that there was an unrecognized proposed state in colonial America called the State of Franklin in what is now eastern Tennessee founded with the intent to be the 14th state.