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TIL A female executor may be referred to as an executrix

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XGYk TIL Despite being the face of anti-establishment. Guy Fawkes was a religious extremist, who tried to overthrow the king to establish a Catholic monarchy.
xVXk1 TIL the first officially recognized disease caused by an occupation was scrotal cancer in children chimney sweeps in 1775.
EkAV TIL of a plane engine system that will be able to take a person anywhere in the world in four hours. The new system is called SABRE, which is a jet engine that also doubles as a rocket engine. In a commercial plane, 300 passengers will whizz around the world at five times the speed of sound.
DEY TIL that teleportation has actually successfully been done on small scales
OoyXY TIL Muammar Qaddafi had a crush on Condoleezza Rice. Sometimes referring to her as his ‘African princess’, he had a Libyan composer write a song called ‘Black Flower in the White House,’ and had a homemade scrapbook filled with photos of the former U.S. secretary of state.