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TIL The family of China’s last imperial family live in obscurity and the niece of the last emperor went out of her way to marry a penniless husband descended from farmers to prove that she was part of the new China rather than the Imperial China

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WZP4 TIL Billy Milligan, a criminal had life so disturbed that his mind fractured into at least 24 personalities. For each of these personalities; his speech pattern was different, his accents were different. He sat different ways in the chair.
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g1JD TIL Great Britain’s population doubled during the Victorian Era
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