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TIL that a 14 year old boy broke into Queen Victoria’s Buckingham Palace while disguised as a chimney sweep then ran off with her underwear.

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QAe6 TIL: Andrew Jackson killed a man in a duel for insulting his wife. Jackson let the opponent shoot first, who hit Jackson in the chest. Then Jackson took his sweet time to aim. People called it too cold-blooded &, as a result, Jackson became a social outcast.
gMNA TIL that in the movie half baked when dave chapelle says to the scientist “ my grandfather was part of the Tuskegee experiments” he really was.
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