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TIL of Berengaria of Navarre, the only Queen of England to have never set foot in the country. She was married to Richard the Lionheart for 8 years

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697eY TIL: The Orang Minyak or "oily man" is a supernatural creature that abducts young women. It is able to climb walls and evade capture due to being slippery. It is usually described as being naked and versions of the legend vary between it being an evil warlock, "rapist covered in oil", or a summon.
EJNW TIL: The first new antibiotic in 30 years has been discovered.
awM4L TIL that in 2006 after a man shot 10 Amish children then committed suicide, the Amish went to the his family to offer them support. They also set up a charitable fund for his family and during the shooter's funeral they surrounded the family to provide them privacy from the media.
LdXQ TIL that while sudden heart attacks during sex are rare, most of them happen to men who are cheating on their wives
wL006 TIL that NASA spaces flights have had wake up songs for the astronauts starting with the gemini program, the day 2 song for the SpaceX flight is “planetary caravan” by Black Sabbath.