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TIL that in the late 1960s, the Shah of Iran sent a series of letters to the King of Saudi Arabia, saying, “Please, my brother, modernize. Open up your country. Make the schools mixed. Let women wear miniskirts. Have discos. Be modern. Otherwise I cannot guarantee you will stay on your throne.”

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dD5bK TIL of a Victorian-era English recipe for a toast sandwich: Two pieces of bread with a slice of toast in between. Modern reviews have ranged from calling it “just not that good” to “an extravagance of blandness.”
rRDaM TIL that former Former President Benjamin Harrison’s daughter, Mary Harrison McKee, served as First Lady after Benjamin Harrison’s wife died while he was in office
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PYAJV TIL About Frank Foley- the “British Schindler”. An intelligence officer in Berlin before WWII, he worked as a passport officer and is credited with saving “tens of thousands” of Jews by stamping as many of their passports as he could. He also went into internment camps and hid Jews in his home.