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TIL the producers of Game of Thrones wrote an episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia “Flowers for Charlie”

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89KZ TIL that each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades represent King David, Clubs represent Alexander the Great, Hearts represent Charles VII, and Diamonds represent Julius Caesar. Same applies to Queens and Knaves also.
rRxvW TIL about Sarah Forbes Bonetta. An admitted genius and royal of the Yoruba tribe's Oyo empire that was given to Queen Victoria in 1850 as a present after her parents were decapitated and her siblings sold in the Atlantic slave trade. She would be raised as the Queens Goddaughter.
W7gGo TIL the term "Siamese twins" comes from the twin conjoined brothers Chang and Eng Bunker who were born in Siam, now Thailand. When they first arrived in England to become circus exhibits, they were called “The Siamese Twins.”
yQbZX TIL of Clarence Elkins, who was wrongly imprisoned for the murder of his mother-in-law and assault of his 6-year-old niece. His wife worked hard to exonerate him and found a likely suspect who was in the same jail as him. Clarence collected a cigarette he’d used. His DNA matched.
LkDYr TIL that in the American Civil War, most battles had two names. The North generally named battles after natural features while the South named based on man-made landmarks/towns near battle. The Northern defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run was a Southern victory at the First Battle of Manassas.