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TIl that Wales was only recognized as legally separate from England in 1967 and before was legally a province of England.

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8N0b TIL The inventors of Bubble Wrap were originally trying to make plastic wallpaper.
D1aev TIL: Continental Cablevision broadcasted a T-shirt offer only to viewers who were obtaining the pay-per-view signal illegally. This was done by encoding the signal in a way only illegal decoders could decode. Those who responded were caught stealing cable.
e0NAn TIL Cleopatra was not Egyptian. She was a descendant of Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great.
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N759e TIL of Daniel Lewin, who is believed to be the first person murdered in the 9/11 attacks, while attempting to prevent the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 11.