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TIL that during her adult life, Queen Victoria was estimated to have written 2,500 words a day.

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8eeGa TIL of the term Euphemism Treadmill: As words turn into a pejorative they get replaced by other words that turn into a pejorative
dnmd TIL the biggest lobster ever documented was in 1977- 44 lb, almost 4 feet long, and estimated to be as old as 100 years. Records show lobsters reached as big as 6 feet during colonial times!
P8nL TIL: there is an island where pre-Neolithic people still live. They attack anybody that tries to meet them.
7l67 TIL Luxembourg’s gold medal at the 1952 Olympics was so unexpected that the organisers had neglected to give the band a score for their national anthem. The musicians “hurriedly improvised a tune which bore little resemblance to the Luxembourg anthem”.
aKjb TIL that in 1988, Iran began a country-wide purge of political prisoners. People were beaten for missing daily prayers. One woman died after 22 days and 550 lashes, and the authorities certified her death as suicide because it was ‘she who had made the decision not to pray’.