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TIL the full form of OK is Olla Kalla or Oll Korrect

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OXDR TIL George V did not want his son Edward VIII to become King and told his private secretary that ‘After I am dead the boy will ruin himself in 12 months.’ After George’s death, Edward was King for 10 months and 3 weeks before giving up the throne.
165nX TIL that, when Cleopatra VII. Philpator (the one we know from Shakespeare/Asterix) was born in 69 b.c., her greek family, the Ptolemies, had already been ruling Egypt for 236 years since 305 b.c., and been there since the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great in 332 b.c. or his death in 323 b.c.
Z8ypa TIL that 70s prog rockers Ambrosia took the lyrics from a 1976 track, "Nice, Nice, Very Nice," from a Kurt Vonnegut novel. When Vonnegut heard the song on the radio, he wrote the band a letter that said, "Music is the only art that’s really worth a damn. I envy you guys."
oRryW TIL the name for Limp Bizkit was meant to be terrible so that people would look at their album, see the name and then go "oh, this name sucks ass!"
OG4W6 TIL young, old, or stressed chickens can lay very small eggs (about the size of a nickel or quarter) with no yolks called fairy eggs.