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TIL that Michael Jackson made a special appearance for Miss Castaway And The Island Girls (2004)

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8aYEK TIL that between 991 and 1018, the Anglo-Saxon kings of England paid an important economic tribute to the Viking invaders worth circa 2.8 million troy oz in silver coins. This explains why today there are still more Anglo-Saxon silver coins in Denmark than in England.
Y7Jvr TIL. you can donate to the federal government specifically to reduce the US gov debt.
NglQ TIL: While Governor of California, Ronald Reagan signed into law one of the strictest gun control policies for the State in order to disarm the Black Panthers. Ronald Reagan was the first presidential candidate that the NRA endorsed.
4Vya TIL after writing several scathing editorials about a scientist’s “ridiculous” claim that the moon could be reached with rockets, the New York Times published a correction…three days before the moon landing in 1969.
x6yBk TIL Paper marbling is the Eastern art of floating colours on aqueous solutions and was employed in 1695 by the Bank of England to make banknotes to prevent their counterfeiting. They were forged mere weeks later by infamous counterfeit coiner William Chaloner.