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TIL About the French Gratitude Train

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QZMe TIL a couple invited the Queen to their wedding as a joke, and she turned up.
Rbb8 TIL Richard I the Lionheart, the famous King of England, could not speak English and only spent 6 months of his 10 year reign in England
5LoP TIL Coyote attacks are on the rise in the U.S. as they are losing their fear of humans, and that most of these attacks are not coyotes but instead a hybrid called “Coywolves”
5YE5D TIL when former NFL safety Dave Duerson took his life he left a note that read, “Please see that my brain is given to the NFL’s brain bank.” He shot himself in the chest rather than his head so as to preserve his brain. Doctors confirmed that he was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Br7BL TIL the term Gerrymandering was coined when, in 1812, Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry created a partisan district that looked like a salamander