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TIL After Margaret Schilling went missing in the Athens Lunatic Asylum, her body was found one month later in a locked abandoned part of the hospital. The gruesome stain on the floor can still be seem today and the mystery surrounding her death has never been solved

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XEKbD TIL that Admiral Sir William James, born in 1881, was, as a young child, the model for a famous painting titled "Bubbles" which was subsequently used to advertise Pears Soap. This fame dogged him throughout his life and he was regularly nicknamed "Bubbles", much to his chagrin.
Wrr9 TIL that Cindy Crawford won a scholarship to Northwestern for Chemical Engineering; she was also valedictorian of her high school.
16b7D TIL that the median salary in Denmark in 2022 were $5,900 a month or $37 an hour
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Z8lAB TIL that England doesn't have its own national anthem so God Save the Queen (the national anthem of the United Kingdom as a whole) is often used in its place. Candidates for an English national anthem include "Jerusalem", "Land of Hope and Glory"and "I Vow to Thee, My Country".