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TIL a group of hedgehogs is called a “prickle.”

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RMj7 TIL Alabama voters, in 2000, repealed the law that banned interracial marriage, which the US Supreme Court had already ruled unconstitutional 33 years earlier in Loving vs. Virginia. Despite the law already being unconstitutional, 41% of Alabama voters still voted against the repeal.
wonB6 TIL the "Three Lions" on the England football shirt and Royal Banner of England originate in a French royal dynasty, the Plantagenets. Under this dynasty, the Magna Carta was enacted and the Hundred Year's War started, when Richard III declared himself heir to the throne of France.
wNnE TIL that the Pepsi taste test only proved people liked Pepsi with a small sip, but preferred Coca-cola over the course of a full can/bottle.
BRr TIL that lady rainicorn from the cartoon Adventure Time doesn’t speak gibberish but Korean.
7roL7 TIL That J. R. R. Tolkien began work on The Hobbit one day early in the 1930s, when he was marking School papers. He found a blank page. Suddenly inspired, he wrote the words, “In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.”