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TIL Marie-Antoinette was once hit by human waste being thrown out the window as she walked through an interior courtyard

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R7by4 TIL of the New Zealand Black Robin that went from extinct to threatened after scientists found 6 males and 1 female on a rocky island isolated from introduced predatory species. today there are hundreds of Black Robins.
WX1A TIL people who constantly bite the skin around their fingernails or on the inside of their cheeks suffer from dermatophagia, an impulse control disorder linked to anxiety and obsession
4Nxw TIL a Thai princess drowned to death as servants watched, because they were ordered to never touch the royals
9wylr TIL Britain and France almost formed a political union in the 1940s
d87N9 TIL several years after Harriet Tubman escaped to freedom, she returned to rescue her enslaved husband. When she found out he'd remarried another woman and didn't want to leave, she thought about making a scene, decided it wasn't worth it, and then led several other slaves to freedom instead