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TIL that Richard of Shrewsbury (the younger of the two princes in the tower) had been married and widowed before his disappearance at age 9.

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Z5oB TIL that on the night before his scheduled execution, Troy Leon Gregg successfully escaped Georgia State Prison’s death row. Later that night, he was beaten to death in a bar fight in North Carolina.
Y7ZgA TIL Hitler suffered from right-side cryptorchidism which means he really had one ball
PwlE TIL in 1998, the USS Yorktown lost all propulsion power and had to be towed back to Norfolk Base when a computer attempted to divide by 0, causing a database to overflow.
PJQE TIL ‘Eat out’ meant 'perform cunnilingus on’ 3 years before it was used to refer to 'dining away from home’
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