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TIL that the plans for turning Russia into a parliamentary democracy were completed one day before Alexander II was assassinated in 1881. He was supposed to present these to the Russian people in the next 48 hours. The first action of his more conservative son was to tear up those plans.

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D1yVj TIL in testing the reaction of Tamarin monkeys to music, researchers found they reacted positively to specially-composed pieces that corresponded to their physiology: pitched 3 octaves above our music, and at 200 bpm to be relaxing
wZKM TIL: In contrast to the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force, the British Army does not include Royal in its title because, after a historic struggle between Parliament and monarchy, the British Army has always been answerable to Parliament and the British people rather than the Monarch
epD8D TIL of the Town of Bingham Canyon, which was founded as a copper mining town in 1863, before being completely consumed by the copper mine as it grew. The Bingham Canyon Mine is now the largest man-made open pit mine in the world, and one of the deepest as well.
J17Am TIL in Beijing 2012, a Ferrari crashed during sex-orgy between a naked driver and 2 women. Driver (who died) was son of Ling Jihua, Chief-of-Staff serving then Chinese President Hu Jintao. Ling reportedly denied body was his son when visiting morgue. He was eventualy sentenced to life for corruption
9kxX TIL A man looking for his hammer with a metal detector found one of the largest hoards of Roman gold and silver ever found in Britain