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TIL that for a period in the 19th century, walking competitions that lasted for days was a big money spectator sport.

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yQJDp TIL Princess Elisabeth of Hesse was royal in England, Russia and Germany. She and her husband were murdered by Russian Revolutionaries. Her body was buried in Russia, then moved to Beijing, China and is now buried in a Russian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem.
9YZpQ TIL in 1982 an American undergrad student argued that a constitutional amendment proposed in 1789 could still be approved by Congress. When he received a "C," he started a letter writing campaign and got the amendment ratified. His grade was changed to an "A" in 2016.
7W0Z TIL - In the cold war, US, UK, FR intelligence deprived the Soviets in East German of Toilet paper so they would resort using official documents to wipe. Operation Tamarisk was great success.
awP7y TIL of Aarne-Thompson–Uther Index, a catalogue of folktale types used in folklore studies, dividing tales into sections with an AT number for each entry, with the same tale type number referred to by its central motif or the variant folktales of that type, and related tales were grouped together
4krwo TIL Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Todd Lincoln, grew to become the US Secretary of War (1881-1885) and lived to the age of 82, dying in 1926