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TIL that the last ever prisoners to be held inside the Tower Of London prison were the Kray Twins in 1952

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l7o6r TIL Mike Oldfield, when Virgin Records insisted on hi9m calling his next LP "Tubular Bells 2", responded with "Amarok" - an album with rapidly shifting themes, random bursts of noise, and a message in morse code saying "F**k you RB" - apparently directed at Richard Branson.
npyB TIL: There’s a company that takes donations to purchase student loans at pennies on the dollar just to wipe them out and has wiped $32m to date.
rNKZd Today I learned that American couples only sleep with 1 duvet, large enough for the the two of them. And not separate ones. And they also have a weird thing called «top sheet»
5YD6n TIL On The Rolling Stones record sleeves between 1963 and 1965 the band used the songwriter pseudonym "Nanker/Phelge" for collaborations where all band members took equal credit
e0yJ4 TIL Benito Mussolini signed Vatican City into existence. The 1929 Lateran Treaty ended the dispute between the Italian government & the Catholic Church, which allowed the Vatican to exist as its own sovereign state and compensated the church $92 million (> $1 billion today) for the Papal states.