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TIL of the Bombing of the Bezuidenhout, an incident in which the British RAF accidentally bombarded a civilian neighbourhood in The Hague resulting in 511 casualties.

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oBQJ7 TIL about the Himalayan 'Skeleton Lake', a lake at an altitude of about 5000 m, known for the hundreds of ancient human skeletons, the remains belonging to very different eras and to different distinct groups (Indian, South Asian and Mediterranean), whose cause of death remains a mystery though.
Wk6PA TIL that the most accepted heir of the defunct Imperial Throne of Russia is also a decendent of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Both thrones were lost as an effect of World War 1.
axJA TIL that at one point, Blockbuster was growing so fast that it was opening a new store every 17 hours
Z8LW4 TIL that the concept for Spider-Man's black costume came from a fan named Randy Schueller, who was paid $220 in 1982 for the idea by then-Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter. Schueller conceived a black stealth version with a dark red spider chest emblem made by Reed Richards with unstable molecules.
ne1aW TIL in 2006, Sharon Tendler became the first human to officially marry a dolphin. The bottlenose dolphin named Cindy had courted her for 15 years at the Eilat Reef resort town in southern Israel. Tendler told the media, “I am the happiest girl on earth,” and she added, “I am not a pervert.”