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TIL that a woman was found in her London flat, skeletonised, after 3 years of being dead - with the TV still running

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OlnY TIL that when the Pope addressed the European Parliament in 1988, the future Northern Irish first minister Rev. Ian Paisley interrupted by shouting “I denounce you as the Antichrist”. German MEP Otto von Habsburg, son of the last Austro-Hungarian emperor, responded by punching him in the face.
GAVMJ TIL Apples are harvested only once a year in the United States, from August to November. If you are eating an apple in the winter, spring, or summer, and that apple came from the supermarket, it was picked the previous fall—as long as 10 months ago, if it’s July 1.
wGw1 TIL -> Sam Adams Sells a Bottle of Beer, Once a Year, Costing About $115 per Bottle Which Typically sells out in 2-4 hours of becoming available.
a8JZN TIL that Daniele Comboni, the founder of the Catholic Priest group, Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus, was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2003.
D1j0e TIL Tennessee was the only state in the USA that the Emancipation proclamation didn't cover. Instead the state chose to ratify the 14th amendment on their own in 1866.