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TIL The Privy Council of Elizabeth I of England marked letters that needed to be delivered quickly with a rough drawing of a gallows on the address panel. Sometimes the drawing included a body hanging from the gallows.

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QJDZE TIL that 965 years ago, a supernova was visible during the day.
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