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TIL: in 2015 Queen Elizabeth visited the set of Game of Thrones and got a close look at the Iron Throne, but refused to take a seat because there's an old rule that says the Queen is not allowed to sit on a foreign throne.

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6EOxQ TIL the world record for longest stare (40 minutes, 59 seconds) was set in 2011 at an Australian staring competition. At 17 minutes, the crowd became angry. At 30 minutes, contestants said they were bored.
67gw TIL there was a fire in a school in Collinwood, Ohio that resulted in the death of 172 students, two teachers and a rescuer, making it the deadliest school fire in the United States.
OGa51 TIL of the Benjamin Duke House on 5th Avenue in New York City. It was completed in 1901 for an heir to the Duke tobacco fortune. It remained in the Duke Family for more than a century and In 2006 it sold to a former taxi driver for $40 million, the most ever paid for a Manhattan residence.
yxDX TIL An Iranian F-4 Phantom tried to shoot down an U.S. surveillance drone in international airspace. An American F-22 Raptor flew under the F-4 undetected, checked out their weapons, pulled up on their left wing, switched to their radio frequency and said ‘you really ought to go home'”
9Yma6 TIL a secret society, the "Knights of the Golden Circle," plotted for the US to annex and enslave Central America & the Caribbean in order to create a massive Slave State empire. The US even had real opportunities to annex more of Mexico, which Northern abolitionists blocked to prevent such plans.