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TIL that in 2012 the laws of succession were altered to allow the eldest child born within the British Royal family, regardless of gender, to precede his or her siblings.

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KORKE TIL of 'The Comet', a sci-fi short story written in 1920 by American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois. It tells the story of a Black man and White woman who survive when the population of New York is obliterated. It is credited by many as the foundation for writers of Afrofuturism.
gMV5L TIL that a fake city of 30,000 was built in Tennessee during World War II as a front for a nuclear research facility
vkL4 TIL that If 1 in 10 of US smokers quit, $63 billion would be saved in the US alone
NGwE TIL: One of the major sources of income for the small island nation of Tuvalu is the commercialisation of the ’.tv’ top level domain
DQw6e TIL James Longstreet’s (Confederate general and US Minister to the Ottoman Empire) second wife, Helen Dortch Longstreet, died in 1962 at the age of 99. They got married in 1897, he was 74 and she was 34. She was widowed in 1904, childless.