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TIL that the Crown Prince and heir to the Empire of Iran lives in Great Falls, Virginia

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9gKG TIL that the very last full-blooded Tasmanian aboriginal person, Truganini, died in 1876. She lost her mother, uncle, sister, and fiancé to European explorers. To this day the ‘Black War’ against Tasmanian aborigines has never been officially memorialised
dEmZ TIL: That Maine is the only US state not known to have any ‘dangerously venomous’ spiders.
gr8LD TIL the longest sea crossing in the world is a bridge-tunnel system connecting Macau and Hong Kong. It is 34 miles long, roughly twice the length of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, which is where the idea came from.
07D1 TIL That a New York man with a 13.5 inch penis has had a lifetime of complete strangers asking if they could see it, and when he was 10, had his first sexual encounter with an 18 year old girl.
nEEd TIL that when she was young Marilyn Monroe’s mentally unstable mother tried to kidnap her from her foster parents by stuffing her in a duffle bag.