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TIL Pirate Benjamin Hornigold once attacked a ship just to take their hats.

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WRNN TIL Sleeping Beauty’s deep sleep was caused by a splinter of flax in her finger, and during her sleep she was raped by a king (her father was a Lord). She gave birth to twins while enchanted and one sucked on her finger to remove the flax which woke her up.
b6vXQ TIL in 2011, Indian Finance Minister and other Indian ministers tried to terminate Britain's aid to their booming country but British Officials requested them keep taking the money and that cancelling the programme would cause “grave political embarrassment” to Britain
XyYQ TIL a study involving 165 patients with Alzheimer’s found that those treated with the highest dose of an antibody drug, aducanumab, experienced an almost complete clearance of amyloid plaques (that supposedly lead to the irreversible memory loss and cognitive decline).
LQLPd TIL The novel Maltese Falcon got its name from the tribute of one falcon per year that the Knight Hospitallers, a Catholic military order founded during the crusade, had to provide to the monarchs of Sicily in exchange for getting the island of Malta. It went on continuously from 1530 to 1798.
NXLy1 TIL that Princess Diana's grandmother counselled her granddaughter against her marriage to Charles, saying: "Darling, you must understand that their sense of humour and their lifestyle are different, and I don't think it will suit you."