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TIL Queen Victoria survived 8 assassination attempts, 3 of which occurred within 5 weeks of each other, and 1 involving a British army officer who hit her over the head with a cane.

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RJQ9 TIL A 9,000 Year Old Skeleton Was Found in a Cave in Cheddar, England Known As Cheddar Man. When CM’s DNA was tested a Living Relative Was Found Teaching School Half a Mile Away, Linking Back 300 Generations
Z8jJo TIL that until the mid-twentieth century, golf clubs were not numbered, but had wonderfully funny names: brassies, niblicks, baffies, mashies, jiggers, spoons, and cleeks.
KYBAB TIL that most of modern Finland was underwater at the end of the last ice age. The weight of the ice had pushed the crust down, and the land is still rebounding. It would still have been an archipelago at the time of the founding of Jericho.
PYbpE TIL that Roald Dahl, while stationed in America in World War 2, slept with countless high society women while gathering intelligence. According to one socialite friend, Dahl had a “whole stable” of women, and “he slept with everybody on the east and west coasts that had more than $50,000 a year."
GMBQ TIL The Pulitzer Prize only considers those works whose authors pay the $50 submission fee