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TIL England's Queen Victoria was such an avid matchmaker that the marriages she helped arrange are credited to have shaped modern Europe.

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Br7Od TIL that English used to have a letter for "th", called thorn. That letter was shorthanded to y, therefore "ye olde shoppe"
a0GJ TIL Mohammed al Qahtani (20th hijacker of the 9/11 attacks) was interrogated at Guantanamo Bay by dripping water, physical torture, prolonged strip searches, and invasion of space by a female, none of which worked; it was continuously hearing Christina Aguilera’s “Dirrty” that finally broke him.
grwGX TIL Hiroshima’s streetcar network was reopened three days after the atomic bombing of the city
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KYvA6 TIL in 1952, many of Adlai Stevenson's friends and associates led a "draft Stevenson" movement to make him run for President and continued even when he told them to stop.