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TIL Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's enslaved underage mistress, was also his wife's half sister

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0xKp TIL that one of Franz Ferdinand’s descendants is trying to reacquire his estate. This estate was seized by Czechoslovakia after the end of World War I, but this descendant argues that this seizure was unjust since Franz Ferdinand’s children weren’t members of the Habsburg royal family.
E16QW TIL in 2010, a Polish man living in Germany asked doctors to remove what he thought was a several-year old cyst at the back of his head. However, doctors found that the 'cyst' was actually a .22-caliber round lodged in his scalp. He didn’t noticed it because he was drunk when it happened 5 years ago
BrJXd TIL that Baskin Robbins is called “31” in Japan.
lYaK TIL there’s a man made pit in Nova Scotia. To this day, people don’t know what’s at the bottom of it.
6EbQ7 TIL In 1970 Dock Ellis, MLB Pittsburgh Pirates Starting Pitcher, Thew A No-Hitter While On LSD