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TIL in 2015, Queen Elizabeth II decided to not breed anymore corgis so that she would not leave any behind when she died. Her last corgi died in April 2018

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N7vQe TIL Detroit holds the record for the city with the most rejected bids to host the Olympics.
8V94 TIL: The most remote location on Earth lies in the South Pacific and is known as “Nemo Point”. So remote in fact, the closest humans to this point would be the astronauts on the ISS that occasionally drift overhead.
v1Y6x If the task requires creativity or mental rotation, music can increase performance.
PYnWZ TIL about Polyandry, a form of polygamy in which a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time. One example of polyandry is in the Himalayan mountains, due to the scarcity of land. The marriage of all brothers in a family to the same wife allows family land to remain intact and undivided.
dWY7 TIL that jousting is the official state sport of Maryland