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8a9vX TIL that Henry VIII never had sex with his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, because he believed that she had a “bad” appearance. He later complained that he had been misled by people about her looks and a court painting had exaggerated her beauty. The marriage was later annulled.
WjRA TIL John Cleese rejected a Knighthood (CBE) and said he felt much more honored when a Swiss zoologist named a lemur after him in 2005.
X00lk TIL Christina, the woman depicted in Andrew Wyeth's famous painting 'Christina's World,' had a neurodegenerative disease that paralyzed her from the waist down. Stubborn and self-reliant, she resisted the idea of using a wheelchair or crutches, instead preferring to crawl or drag herself.
BKVr TIL: That 432 people own half the land in Scotland.
00Wp TIL The wreck of a WW2 “Liberty ship” is sitting off the coast of Kent and it’s loaded with 1400 tonnes of explosives, the equivalent of a small nuclear device.