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TIL the United Kingdom writes, prints and stores all of its laws on goatskin

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wLbb6 TIL that Spain's King Philip II (after whom the Philippines are named) became King of England and Ireland when he married England's Queen Mary I, reigning jointly with his wife. As he couldn't read English it was ordered that a note of all matters of state should be made in Latin or Spanish
OG9J1 TIL It's illegal to engage in metal detecting in Ireland
wLgZ8 TIL the founder of Yankee Candle sold his company but later went into business with his son before his passing. Their company is Kringle Candle, down the road from the original Yankee factory.
78GmO TIL Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack contained death predictions of real and fictional people as a marketing trick so people would want to see the results in the next annual almanac. Franklin would sometimes include false death reports of astrologers as a running joke.
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