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TIL that Prince William and Prince Harry have Indian ancestry through an unbroken maternal line.

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xV0bo TIL in most American universities, the only truly profitable sport is American football while men's basketball is somewhat profitable in some schools. All other sports generally lose money.
p8xWA TIL that the Concorde airplane flew so fast, if you left London (or Paris) in the evening flying west towards New York, to the passengers in the plane, the sun would actually appear to begin rising again shortly after reaching cruising speed. The plane flew faster than the Earth's rotation.
ZVrQ TIL that a apartment went untouched in paris for 75 years and was found to contain 2.1 million dollars worth of art as well as a look back into the past.
xVnX5 TIL honey bees are not and have never been on the endangered species list
E8mV TIL the record for person who survived the highest fall without parachute was Vesna Vulovic. She was a Yugoslavian stewardess who survived 10,160 meters (33,000 feet) fall after her plane was bombed by Croatian terrorists