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TIL that the former King of Spain, Juan Carlos I, killed his brother Alfonso shooting him in the head when he was 14

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9PdD TIL after the success of The Hobbit, Tolkien wanted to publish a book on the history of Middle Earth, The Silmarillion, it was through a misunderstanding that the publisher rejected the draft without reading it, leading Tolkien to write another story about hobbits, which began The Lord of the Rings.
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