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TIL that Cambridge University was founded in 1221 by professors from Oxford who had been run out of town by hostile townspeople

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l4xr TIL there was a US pilot of “The IT Crowd” and Moss was played by the same actor
4XB5N TIL that’s rats can laugh. It’s inaudible to humans at 50kHz.
Ql8X TIL that before 2003, it was legal for 16-year-old girls to pose topless in British newspapers. One paper, the Daily Sport, was known to count down the days until it could feature a girl topless on her 16th birthday.
OG99Y TIL that Chile and England briefly shared the same head of state when, in the 16th century, Mary I of England and her husband Philip II of Spain were made the King and Queen of Chile.
VMPmk TIL In WW II, German submarines used the lights from US coastal cities to see US shipments. Coastal cities refused to limit lighting as was done in Europe due to tourism, and as a result much shipping was destroyed.