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TIL that having the prefix “Fitz” in your surname once meant that you may have been the bastard son of Royalty.

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RoPQ TIL that runners wearing top-of-the-line trainers are 123 per cent more likely to get injured than runners in cheap ones. This was discovered as far back as 1989, according to a study led by Dr Bernard Marti, the leading preventative-medicine specialist at Switzerland’s University of Bern
MgDA TIL That ‘Blood Feuds’ are still active in Albania. If someone kills someone, the family then kills someone from their family and it goes back and forth. The only safe haven is your home. Some feuds are decades old, and some children hardly leave their home to stay safe.
1aKkW TIL The Mecha genre of science fiction was founded in Japan. The first depiction of Mecha Super Robots being piloted by a user from within a cockpit was introduced in the manga and anime series Mazinger Z by Go Nagai in 1972.
OROY TIL that all the contributors of the psuedoscientifc AIDS denial magazine ‘Continuum’ died of clinical conditions caused by AIDS
aw9Vb TIL when returning home to Australia, Hugh Jackman has been known to notify the paparazzi as to his whereabouts so they can get the photos they want and leave him alone the remainder of his stay.