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TIL that Rose Leslie (“Ygritte”) grew up in a castle ;her father being the chieftain of Clan Leslie. Kit Hartington (“Jon Snow”) is a distant cousin

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Eg4Oo TIL being sleep deprived can cause sexual arousal in mammals.
WkWl8 TIL Despite being land locked countries, a Czech-Austrian inventor was the first to use a screw type propeller to power a ship. His ship, Civetta of 48 gross register tons, reached a speed of about 6 knots (11 km/h). This was the first ship successfully driven by an Archimedes screw-type propeller.
VLxD TIL that a female PFC in Iraq’s death was ruled a suicide despite the autopsy revealing she had a broken nose, black eye, loose teeth, burns from a corrosive chemical on her genitals, and a gunshot wound that seemed inconsistent with suicide.
rY0 TIL that Mila Kunis was the girl in Aerosmith’s music video “Jaded.”
ADPmx TIL That Analeigh Tipton, a main character in Crazy Stupid Love, was once sold to a Saudi Arabian prince as a sex slave by traffickers posing as modeling agents. She escaped the situation before the deal was finalized.