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TIL that one of the first recorded instances of the word "fuck" in its modern English meaning was in the court documents of a 14th-century case in reference to a man named in the documents as "Roger Fuckbythenavele".

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JbWv TIL The “Red Queen” is not another name for the Queen of Hearts in “Alice in Wonderland.” They are actually two separate characters. The Queen of Hearts is from “Alice in Wonderland,” and the Red Queen is from the sequel “Through the Looking Glass.”
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5YjJn TIL: In an Irish WWII POW camps. Prisoners were allowed leave the camp for Pub visits, dances with the locals, fishing, golfing trips and fox hunts. On the condition that they promised not to escape.
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