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TIL Ivan the Terrible died during a game of chess

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6J8W TIL Douglas Adams got the idea for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy when he was drunkenly stargazing in a field with a copy of “Hitch-hiker’s Guide to Europe” in his hands
Rlnj TIL the “Iron maiden,” commonly accepted as a medieval torture device, was created as a hoax in 1793, pieced together from artifacts found in museums to be used as a “spectacular” object for commercial exposition.
ELAx TIL Vatican City is the only nation in the world that can lock its own gates at night. It has its own phone company, radio, T.V. stations, money, and stamps. It even has its own army, the historic Swiss Guard.
GY15Q TIL there’s a Superman cartoon made in the 40s that pioneered high quality animation and cost half a million per episode to draw
78JeL TIL Since it’s discovery in 1930 Pluto has yet to orbit the sun and won’t until 2178.