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TIL that Yale alumni occupied the presidency and/or vice presidency continuously from 1981 to 2009

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grA7A TIL that Henri, Count of Chambord, was offered the French throne in 1870. He refused it when the French National Assembly would not meet his demand that they change the flag, leading Pope Pius IX to remark, "All that for a napkin!"
9aQr TIL: Approximately 10,000 attended the funeral of Hawaiian musician, Israel Kamakawiwoʻole.
nexB7 TIL of Europe's only legal private army, the Atholl Highlanders, they're not part of the British Army and instead under the command of the Duke of Atholl, the head of Clan Murray
NXwAb TIL:There is a rare celestial body in the universe called "interstellar visitors". These celestial bodies do not come from our solar system, but fly from other galaxies. So far, we have detected two interstellar visitors, 'Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2020.
WwKX TIL the Australian Federal Police deliberately refused to provide records proving a pilot was over 1000 miles away from the scene of a rape he was charged with. He served 2 and a half years in jail, during which his infant daughter died.