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TIL before becoming Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Liliʻuokalani, was inspired to write "Aloha 'Oe" ("Farewell to Thee") by a notable farewell embrace she witnessed when her party was leaving the Boyd ranch between Colonel James Harbottle Boyd & either her sister or a young lady at the ranch.

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9YljM TIL a Texas sheriff was duped into buying money copying box. Irate that the box did not work, he confronted the seller, who convinced the sheriff he had been operating it incorrectly and gave him some money for the trouble. The sheriff was later arrested because the money he had been given was fake.
4kdMw TIL: One scientific theory suggests that the passage of time is due to our expanding universe. As the universe expands, it pulls time with it because space and time are linked as one. So if the universe were to stop expanding and begin to contract, then time would reverse
EgGAW TIL that the monarch of the country of Cambodia doesn't inherit the throne, Instead, they are elected via a special council called the Royal Council of the Throne.
v1yYr TIL that a Scottish parliamentarian introduced a bill to decriminalize homosexuality in England after his gay brother killed himself. It passed. He wrote another bill to protect badgers. It failed. When asked why the latter didn’t pass, he snorted “There are not many badgers in the House of Lords.”
PYYAV TIL that in the 1960's, a Donald Duck cartoon was deemed 'prior art' and used to deny a patent for using foam balls to raise a ship from the water.