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QNjWM TIL of the Age of the Sturlungs, a civil war in the Icelandic Commonwealth where chieftains fought each other and culminating in the signing of the Old Covenant leading to Norwegian kingship.
yVoDp TIL that the brothers who founded Friendly's lived to 102 and 106, with the older brother having a copy of Monticello constructed to celebrate his 100th birthday
yQPaM TIL the title of Frasier's Theme Song (Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs) was because "these were things that were 'mixed up' … like Frasier Crane's patients."
4kmnR TIL about Christine Granville, a WW2 spy and Polish aristocrat - Winston Churchill would declare her as his favourite spy. She talks her way into service with M16, gets captured by Germans twice but escapes, and rescues her lover from execution by firing squad.
mJrY TIL humans have a tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless data.