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TIL the expression “May you live in interesting times” is known as the Chinese curse

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p89gb TIL The shortest commercial flight can take as little as 47 seconds and costs £21. It’s between two islands in the UK.
Me8ka TIL about the Black Hole Era, a period of time in the future where the universe will spend the vast majority of it's overall life shuttered in absolute darkness with all the stars in the night sky having died out and space itself dominated by nothing but super massive black holes for eons upon eons
oNQY TIL the idiom “Turning a blind eye” is attributed to Admiral Horatio Nelson who, in the midst of battle and given the permission to retreat by his superior, lifted the telescope to his eye (blinded from an earlier injury) and said “I really do not see the signal” and pressed on with the attack.
OGJNY TIL that there were women gladiators, known as “gladiatrices”. They fought against each other or against animals to entertain their audience.
Bgydy TIL that Henry VIII technically had only two wives , Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr. Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves weren't divorced, but were instead annulled meaning in legal terms the marriages never existed. Henry did the same to Anne Boleyn before he executed her.