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TIL the Upper Colorado River was named the Grand River until 1921. Before then the Colorado River began at Green River, Utah.

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x6aGk TIL that "Niels Bohr" assumed the name "Nicholas Baker" while working on the Manhattan Project
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Y197 TIL King Harald of Norway vowed to remain unmarried for life unless he could marry his true love, the daughter of a cloth merchant. She became the Queen of Norway.
rdvw TIL that in 1964 two students attempted to kidnap the British Prime Minister. The plot was foiled when he offered them beer. They accepted and abandoned their plot. This breach of security was only revealed in 2009.
E15ed TIL of the old jewish cemetery in prague. Dating back to 1478, it has gotten full so many times and they just kept adding layers. Now there are 12 layers of graves stacked on top of each other. There are about 12,000 visible tombstones but over 100,000 people buried there.